THOMPKINS v. LIL' JOE RECORDS, INC.

No. 05-10143.

476 F.3d 1294 (2007)

Jeffrey J. THOMPKINS, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. LIL' JOE RECORDS, INC., Lil' Joe Wein Music, Inc., Joseph Weinberger, John Doe, individuals and corporations, Defendants-Counter-Claimant-Appellees, Navarre Corporation, Third-Party Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Wm. Boone, Law Offices of David Wm. Boone, P.C., Terry Dale Jackson, Law Office of Terry D. Jackson, Atlanta, GA, for Thompkins.

Maureen G. Pearcy, Ronald L. Kammer, Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, Miami, FL, David H. Levitt, Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and LAWSON, District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to consider what happens when a debtor-in-possession in a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, who negotiated the purchase of copyrights prior to the bankruptcy proceeding, later uses the bankruptcy code to reject those contracts that transferred ownership of the copyrights to the debtor. Our resolution of that question determines the outcome of much of this suit by a rap artist who created the works giving rise to the copyrights...

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