Legal Opinion
Baldwin v. EMI Feist Catalog, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 8, 2015No. 14-182-cvPublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves a dispute over the copyright in the musical composition “Santa Claus is Cornin’ to Town” (the “Song”), a classic Christmas song written by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie in the 1930s. In 1976, Congress enacted a complex statutory regime that — as we explain later in this opinion — gave authors and their statutory heirs the right to terminate previously made grants of copyright under certain circumstances, and thereby to recapture some of the value associated with the authors’ works. See 17 U.S.C. §§ 203, 304(c). Plaintiffs-appellants…
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