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CARMICHAEL v. MILLS MUSIC

121 F.Supp. 43 (1954)

CARMICHAEL v. MILLS MUSIC, Inc.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 11, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spring & Eastman, New York City, Lee V. Eastman, Alfred Beekman, E. Gabriel Perle, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff.

Samuel Jesse Buzzell, New York City, Samuel Jesse Buzzell, Theodore R. Kupferman, New York City, of counsel, for defendant.

EDELSTEIN, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a composer of songs, has brought an action against his publisher for a declaratory judgment on the rights to copyright renewals for fourteen of his compositions. The original copyright terms of three of the songs have already expired, but the original terms of the others have not. Plaintiff contends that under the contracts of publication the rights to copyright renewals were not transferred to defendant's predecessors, and...

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