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PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. v. STEINBECK

Docket Nos. 06-3226-cv, 06-3696-cv.

537 F.3d 193 (2008)

PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, Waverly Scott Kaffaga, individually as Executor of the Estate of Elaine Anderson Steinbeck, David Scott Farber, Anderson Farber Runkle, Jebel Kaffaga, Bahar Kaffaga and Jean Anderson Boone, Defendants-Counterclaim-Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Thomas STEINBECK and Blake Smyle, Plaintiffs-Counterclaim-Defendants-Appellees, Nancy Steinbeck, Intervenor-Plaintiff, McIntosh & Otis, Inc., The Steinbeck Heritage Foundation, Eugene H. Winick, Samuel Pinkus and Steven Frushtick, Defendants-Counterclaim-Plaintiffs, Francis Anderson Atkinson and Does 1-10, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 13, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Dannay, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C. (Thomas Kjellberg, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Susan J. Kohlmann, Jenner & Block LLP (Carolina A. Fornos, of counsel), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Kaffaga et al.

Mark S. Lee, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP (Benjamin G. Shatz and Alon G. Markowitz, of counsel), Los Angeles, CA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: SACK, KATZMANN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

SACK, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard Owen, Judge) granting summary judgment to the appellees Thomas Steinbeck and Blake Smyle based on the court's conclusion that a "notice of termination" given in 2004 that purported to terminate, pursuant to the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 304(c) and (d), the 1938 grant of copyright...

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