Legal Opinion
Clare Milne, by and Through Michael Joseph Coyne, Her Receiver v. Stephen Slesinger, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 8, 2005No. 04-57189PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:
This copyright action arises from a termination notice sent by the appellant to the appellee, seeking to recapture rights to various characters created by her grandfather, Alan Alexander Milne, who authored the “Winnie-the-Pooh” children’s books. Milne originally granted various rights in those works to the appellee in 1930. Then, in 1983, due to a change in copyright law in 1976, Milne’s heirs considered terminating the 1930 grant outright, but instead entered into a new agreement that revoked the original grant and re-issued rights in the works to the appellee. The…
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