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YOUNT v. ACUFF ROSE-OPRYLAND

Nos. 95-56072, 95-56151, 95-56563.

103 F.3d 830 (1996)

Robert Gene YOUNT; Robert Blue Yount, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ACUFF ROSE-OPRYLAND, a corporation; Acuff Rose Music, Inc., a corporation; Broadcast Music, Inc., a corporation; William A. McCall, Jr.; Ethel B. McCall, Defendants, and James B. McCall; Geraldine McCall Silva; Deborah McCall Aleto, Defendants-Appellants. Robert Gene YOUNT; Robert Blue Yount, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ACUFF ROSE-OPRYLAND, a corporation; Acuff Rose Music, Inc., a corporation; Broadcast Music, Inc., a corporation; James B. McCall; Geraldine McCall Silva; Deborah McCall Aleto, William A. McCall, Jr.; Ethel B. McCall, Defendants-Appellees, Robert Gene YOUNT; Robert Blue Yount, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ACUFF ROSE-OPRYLAND, a corporation; Acuff Rose Music, Inc., a corporation; Broadcast Music, Inc., a corporation; James B. McCall; Deborah McCall Aleto, Geraldine McCall Silva et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 24, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Golden, Los Angeles, CA, for appellants and cross-appellees James B. McCall, Geraldine McCall Silva, and Deborah McCall Aleto.

David Sasseen, Chew & Chung, San Francisco, CA, for appellees and cross-appellants Robert Gene Yount and Robert Blue Yount.

Judith M. Saffer, Broadcast Music, Inc., New York City, for appellee and cross-appellee Broadcast Music, Inc., and Robert C. Osterberg, Abelman Frayne & Schwab, New York City, for appellee and cross-appellee Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.

Before FERNANDEZ and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, District Judge.

FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

Robert Gene Yount and his son, Robert Blue Yount, brought this action to recover both domestic and foreign royalties for the song "Release Me" during the renewal copyright period.1 James B. McCall, Geraldine McCall Silva, and Deborah McCall Aleto (the McCalls) asserted that they were entitled to those royalties because Yount had assigned all royalties from "Release Me" to their predecessor in interest, W.S. Stevenson...

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