Legal Opinion
Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1985No. 83-1153PublishedCited by 143 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
This is a controversy between a publisher, Mills Music, Inc. (Mills), and the heirs of an author, Ted Snyder (Snyder), over the division of royalty income that the sound recordings *155of the copyrighted song “Who’s Sorry Now” (the Song) have generated. The controversy is a direct outgrowth of the general revision of copyright law that Congress enacted in 1976.1 The 1976 Act gave Snyder’s heirs a statutory right to reacquire the copyright2 that Snyder had previously granted to Mills; however, it also provided that a “derivative work prepared under authority of the grant before its termination may…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- American Tobacco Co. v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Erlenbaugh v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & SonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- G. Ricordi & Co. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Harry Fox Agency, Inc. v. Mills Music, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1982
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3Cited by143 opinions
- Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation EnterprisesSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Community for Creative Non-Violence v. ReidSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Marvel Characters, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee v. Joseph H. Simon, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
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