Rosenblatt v. Ortega

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered February 29, 2000, which denied plaintiff’s motion to dismiss defendants’ counterclaims sounding in unconscionability and failure of consideration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The action involves conflicting claims to certain renewal copyrights in a group of songs cowritten by plaintiff and one Robert Ackoff, also known as Bo Gentry, who died intestate in 1983 and who assigned his share of the initial copyrights, due to expire in 1996, 1997 and 1998, to a nonparty. The complaint, served in 1998, claims entitlement to…