Livingston v. Jay Livingston Music, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE NASHVILLE DIVISION TAMMY LIVINGSTON, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) No. 3:22-cv-00532 ) JAY LIVINGSTON MUSIC, INC., et al., ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION This case concerns the rights to a prolific composer’s music, a dizzying estate plan, and two descendants at odds over how to manage the royalties those compositions earn. In 2015, Defendant Travilyn Livingston (“Travilyn”) began filing notices to terminate publishing and copyright grants her father, Jay Livingston (“Jay”), entered into with the predecessor to Defendant Jay Livingston…