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CADENCE INDUSTRIES CORP. v. RINGER

No. 76 Civ. 339 (WCC).

450 F.Supp. 59 (1978)

CADENCE INDUSTRIES CORPORATION and Magazine Management Co., Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Barbara RINGER, Register of Copyrights, and the Copyright Office of the United States, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

March 13, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenyon & Kenyon Reilly Carr & Chapin, New York City, for plaintiffs; Charles R. Brainard, Stuart J. Sinder, New York City, of counsel.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of New York, New York City, for defendants; John M. O'Connor, Asst. U. S. Atty., Richard E. Glasgow, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

CONNER, District Judge:

This action to compel the Register of Copyrights and the Copyright Office to register plaintiffs' claims to renewal and extension of the copyright in each of a series of comic books published by plaintiffs' predecessors, is the culmination of a ten-year struggle.

The controversy centers upon a question of first impression concerning the construction of the copyright renewal statute, 17 U.S.C. § 24...

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