Legal Opinion
Bill Ham D/B/A Hamstein Music Company v. La Cienega Music Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1993No. 93-2253PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLITZ, Chief Judge:
Bill Ham appeals the dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction of his copyright declaratory judgment action against Bernard Bes-man and Besman’s company, La Cienega Music. We affirm.
Background
In 1948 and 1950 Besman and John Lee Hooker wrote a song entitled “Boogie Chil-len” and a derivative work entitled “Boogie Chillen No. 2.” In 1970, Hooker recorded and released a second derivative with the musical group Canned Heat. Besman registered the three works with the United States Copyright Office and, through La Cienega, holds the copyrights. In 1973 Billy Gibbons, Joe…
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