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CLOSE v. SOTHEBY'S, INC.

Nos. 16-56234, 16-56235, 16-56252.

909 F.3d 1204 (2018)

Chuck CLOSE; Laddie John Dill, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOTHEBY'S, INC., a New York Corporation, Defendant-Appellee. The Sam Francis Foundation; Chuck Close, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated; Laddie John Dill, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Christie's, Inc., a New York Corporation, Defendant-Appellee. The Sam Francis Foundation; Chuck Close, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated; Laddie John Dill, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. eBay Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed December 3, 2018.

ORDER

In Close v. Sotheby's, Inc., 894 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 2018), we held that plaintiffs' claims for resale royalties under the California Resale Royalties Act ("CRRA") are expressly preempted by the 1976 Copyright Act. We thus affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiffs' claims that involved any art sales postdating the Copyright Act's effective date of January 1, 1978. We reversed, however, the district court...

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