WELLES v. TURNER ENTERTAINMENT CO.

No. 05-55742.

503 F.3d 728 (2007)

Beatrice WELLES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. TURNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY; Entertainment Acquisition Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 30, 2007.

Amended September 11, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Ames Brown, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Beatrice Welles.

David W. Quinto, Daryl M. Crone, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees Turner Entertainment Co. and Entertainment Acquisition Co.

Before: JEROME FARRIS and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges, and KEVIN THOMAS DUFFY, District Judge.


ORDER

The opinion filed May 30, 2007 is amended as follows:

On page 6443 of the slip opinion[, 488 F.3d at 1186], after the sentence "We hold that the contract is ambiguous regarding which party owns the right to exploit the Citizen Kane screenplay on home video," insert a footnote containing the following text:

In so holding, we do not adopt a presumption against applying a grant of rights in "motion...

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