Ellington v. Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Barbara R. Kapnick, J.), entered July 12, 2010, which granted defendants’ motion to dismiss the first, second, sixth and eighth causes of action for repudiation, rescission, breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment, respectively, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Plaintiff failed to set forth a basis for terminating the parties’ *439copyright royalties agreement. Viacom’s sale of defendant Famous Music, a party to the agreement, to defendant Sony/ ATV did not repudiate the agreement by assigning plaintiffs rights and rendering Famous incapable of…
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