October 01, 2024
The Second Circuit on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a New York composer who claims Procter & Gamble's advertisement jingle for Febreze ripped off five notes from a song he wrote in the 1980s, saying those notes by themselves are not protectable under copyright law.
April 28, 2022
A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed, for now, a composer's copyright infringement suit against Procter & Gamble and several others for allegedly ripping off a song he wrote in the 1980s for their Febreze commercials, ruling that the composer didn't show how his song was copied.
October 13, 2021
Procter & Gamble Co. is pushing a New York federal court to dismiss a copyright suit over the five-note jingle that's heard at the end of Febreze commercials, arguing that it's too common of a musical sequence to be copyrightable in the first place.
July 16, 2021
A composer has sued Procter & Gamble in New York federal court accusing the company of copying a song he wrote in the 1980s for Febreze commercials.