Legal Opinion
Richlin v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 19, 2008No. 06-55307PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WARDLAW, Circuit Judge:
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, famously unable to crack the simplest of murder cases, would most certainly be confounded by the case we face. While Inspector Clouseau searched for the answer to the question, “Who did it?”, we must search for the answer to the question, “Who owns it?” In 1962, Maurice Richlin coauthored a story treatment (the “Treatment”) 1 involving the bumbling inspector. Later that year, before publication, 2 Richlin assigned all rights in the Treatment—including copyright and the right to renew that copyright—to a corporation that used it to create the…
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