Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Abend
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 24, 1990No. 88-2102PublishedCited by 318 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
The author of a pre-existing work may assign to another the right to use it in a derivative work. In this case the author of a pre-existing work agreed to assign the rights in his renewal copyright term to the owner of a derivative work, but died before the commencement of the renewal period. The question presented is whether the owner of the derivative work infringed the rights of the successor owner of the pre-existing work by continued distribution and publication of the derivative work during the renewal term of the preexisting work.
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