Legal Opinion
Siegel v. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
District Court, C.D. California
Decided August 12, 2009No. Case CV-04-8400-SGL (RZx)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER RESOLVING ADDITIONAL ISSUES
STEPHEN G. LARSON, District Judge.
The 1976 Copyright Act contains many intricate formalities that an author (or his or her heirs) must navigate to successfully terminate the grant to the copyright in an original work of authorship, but perhaps none is more fundamental an impediment than the one excluding from the reach of termination the copyright “in a work made for hire.” 17 U.S.C. § 304(c); see 1 Melville B. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 5.03[A] at 5-12 (2008) (commenting that the exclusion “relating to termination of transfers is probably the most…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Nichols v. Universal Pictures CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
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- Siegel v. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.District Court, C.D. California · 2009
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