Legal Opinion
George G. Rodrigue, Jr. And Richard Steiner v. Veronica Hidalgo Rodrigue
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 7, 2000No. 99-30334PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Our task in this appeal, before us under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 54(b), is to sort out and reconcile the respective rights and obligations of authors under federal copyright law and their spouses under Louisiana community property law when those two legal regimes intersect. Defendant-Appellant Veronica Hidalgo Rodrigue (“Veronica”) asks us to reverse the district court’s ruling that, by virtue of copyright law, her ex-husband, Plaintiff-Appellee George Godfrey Rodrigue, Jr. (“George”), holds all ownership rights in intellectual property that he created during the…
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