Siegel v. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION; ORDER DENYING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION; ORDER AMENDING COURT’S AUGUST 12, 2009, ORDER

STEPHEN G. LARSON, District Judge.

DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

Despite having been passed more than thirty-three years ago, the termination provisions in the 1976 Copyright Act have been little utilized by authors or their heirs and, consequently, little explored by the courts. See William F. Patry, The Failure of the American Copyright System: Protecting the Idle Rich, 72 Notre Dame L.Rev. 907, 922 (1997) (“by not making termination…