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MILNE EX REL. COYNE v. STEPHEN SLESINGER, INC.

No. 04-57189.

430 F.3d 1036 (2005)

Clare MILNE, by and through Michael Joseph COYNE, her receiver, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STEPHEN SLESINGER, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 8, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Nimmer, Los Angeles, CA, argued the cause for the plaintiff-appellant. With him on the briefs were Elliot Brown and Bryce Gee.

Roger L. Zissu, New York, NY, argued the cause for the defendant-appellee. With him on the briefs were Patrick T. Perkins, David Donahue, Correne Kristiansen, and Jerome B. Falk, Jr.

Before: WALLACE, SILVERMAN, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge:

This copyright action arises from a termination notice sent by the appellant to the appellee, seeking to recapture rights to various characters created by her grandfather, Alan Alexander Milne, who authored the "Winnie-the-Pooh" children's books. Milne originally granted various rights in those works to the appellee in 1930. Then, in 1983, due to a change in copyright law in 1976, Milne's heirs considered terminating the 1930 grant outright...

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