Legal Opinion
Welles v. Turner Entertainment Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2007No. 05-55742PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
The opinion filed May 30, 2007 is amended as follows:
On page 6443 of the slip opinion[, 488 F.3d at 1186], after the sentence “We hold that the contract is ambiguous regarding which party owns the right to exploit the Citizen Kane screenplay on home video,” insert a footnote containing the following text:
In so holding, we do not adopt a presumption against applying a grant of rights in “motion pictures” to new technologies. Instead, we simply interpret the written contract of the parties in this case, as our precedent instructs. See Maljack Prods., Inc. v. GoodTimes Home Video Corp., 81…
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