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Stewart Vs. Abend

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 24, 1990

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  1. American Tobacco Co. Vs. Werckmeister US Supreme Court · Dec 02, 1907
  2. Mills Music, Inc. Vs. Snyder US Supreme Court · Jan 08, 1985
  3. U.S. 207 (1990) U.S. Supreme Court Stewart v. Abend
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  4. U.S. 207 (1990) Stewart v. Abend
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  5. the copyright in the story and assigned the renewal rights to respondent Abend. Apparently in reliance on Rohauer v. Killiam
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  6. defense. The Court of Appeals reversed, rejecting the reasoning of Rohauer. Relying on Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  7. Three years later, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Rohauer v. Killiam
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  8. rights in the story for the renewal Petitioners also relied, as did the District Court, on the decision in Rohauer v. Killiam
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  9. of the derivative work held a valid grant of rights in the renewal term. The court relied on Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  10. White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Goff
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  11. De Sylva v. Ballentine
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  12. policy underlying a system comprised of an original term and a completely separate renewal term. See G. Ricordi & Co. v. Paramount
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  13. ed.)). Applying these principles in Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  14. expires is valid against the world, if the author is alive at the commencement of the renewal period. Fisher Co. v. Witmark
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  15. that we granted certiorari, is that the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reached a contrary result in Rohauer v. Killiam
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  16. but the element drawn from the preexisting work remains on grant from the owner of the preexisting work. See Russell v. Price
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  17. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation
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  18. if one who employs the work does not have a valid license or assignment for use of the preexisting work. Russell v. Price
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  19. It is irrelevant whether the preexisting work is inseparably intertwined with the derivative work. See Gilliam v. American
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  20. sue for infringement even after incorporation of the preexisting work into the derivative work. Cf. Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder
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  21. so that the public will not be permanently deprived of the fruits of an artist's labors. See Sony Corp. of America v. Universal
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  22. owner has the capacity arbitrarily to refuse to license one who seeks to exploit the work. See Fox Film Corp. v. Doyal
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  23. capital to garner a fair price for the value of the works passing into public use. See Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation
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  24. in the novel, but may receive protection only for his original additions to the Cinderella story. See McCaleb v. Fox
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  25. American Code Co. v. Bensinger
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  26. the copyright in the original work is undermined by publication of the derivative work. See Adventures in Good Eating v. Best
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  27. G. Ricordi & Co. v. Paramount
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  28. Russell v. Price
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  29. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal
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  30. Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. v. American
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  31. F.2d at 1481 (citing Brewer v. Hustler
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  32. in the judgment. Although I am not convinced, as the Court seems to be, that the decision in Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  33. as in any other case, the language of the statute provides the starting point. Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
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  34. the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin would not infringe Page 495 U. S. 246 the author's rights in the book, see Stowe v. Thomas
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  35. that a copy of a literary work in another form than the original could infringe the author's copyright. See Kalem Co. v. Harper
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  36. Edmonds v. Stern
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  37. for the second term. Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  38. second-term rights to print or copy the underlying work or to create additional derivative works from it. See Gilliam v. American
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  39. U. S. 252 the underlying art to the public by failing to renew his copyright. See Filmvideo Releasing Corp. v. Hastings
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  40. Act, the respective property rights of the parties are determined by the statutory grant under the 1909 Act. See Roth v. Pritikin
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  41. International Film Exchange, Ltd. v. Corinth
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  42. was also the central argument of Judge Friendly in his opinion for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, see Rohauer v. Killiam
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  43. CA2), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 949 (1977), and Judge Thompson dissenting from the panel decision below, see Abend v. MCA
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  44. Gray v. Russell
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  45. Emerson v. Davies
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  46. Shook v. Rankin
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Stewart v. Abend
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  48. Rohauer v. Killiam
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  49. Miller Music Corp. v. Charles
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  50. See G. Ricordi & Co. v. Paramount
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