Opinion ID: 784350
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: The mass mailings of Lover

Text: 18 Jorgensen argues, first, that his act of mailing unsolicited tapes of Lover to scores of record and music publishing companies, including the corporate defendants, constituted access because the corporate employees who allegedly received the mailing could have provided the Heart and Amazed songwriters with a copy of Lover. With two exceptions reviewed below, however, Jorgensen has not provided any reasonable documentation that he actually mailed such tapes (or when or to whom these tapes were purportedly sent). Jorgensen's mass-mailing allegation was, thus, properly rejected by the District Court as legally insufficient proof of access. 2002 WL 31119377, at  (noting that Jorgensen did not maintain a log of where and when he sent his work, or keep receipts from certified mailings to establish a chain of access); see also Dimmie v. Carey, 88 F.Supp.2d 142, 146 (S.D.N.Y. 2000) (rejecting plaintiff's claim that the mailing of tapes to a corporation could be equated with access where there was no evidence that the tapes were ever received or forwarded to the alleged infringers); Jorgensen v. Careers BMG Music Publ'g, No. 01 Civ. 0357, 2002 WL 1492123, at -5 (S.D.N.Y. July 11, 2002) (Preska, J.) ( Jorgensen I ). 4