BALDWIN v. EMI FEIST CATALOG, INC.

No. 14-182-cv.

805 F.3d 18 (2015)

Gloria Coots BALDWIN, Patricia Bergdahl, Christine Palmitessa, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EMI FEIST CATALOG, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 8, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Landry , Carey Rodriguez O'Keefe Milian Gonya, LLP, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Donald S. Zakarin ( Frank P. Scibilia , Ross M. Bagley , on the brief), Pryor Cashman LLP, New York, N.Y., for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: POOLER, LIVINGSTON, and DRONEY, Circuit Judges.


This appeal involves a dispute over the copyright in the musical composition "Santa Claus is Comin' 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—...

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