Legal Opinion
Jeffrey J. Thompkins v. Lil' Joe Records, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 2007No. 05-10143PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to consider what happens when a debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, who negotiated the purchase of copyrights prior to the bankruptcy proceeding, later uses the bankruptcy code to reject those contracts that transferred ownership of the copyrights to the debtor. Our resolution of that question determines the outcome of much of this suit by a rap artist who created the works giving rise to the copyrights in question. The artist sold copyrights in his works to a music recording company in exchange for a recording contract that…
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