Venegas-Hernandez v. Peer’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
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Applies 17 U.S.C. § 304 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · De Sylva v. Ballentine · Stewart v. Abend · Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons · Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc.
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“(A) the widow or widower owns the author’s entire termination interest unless there are any surviving children or grandchildren of the author, in which case the widow or widower owns one-half of the author’s interest; (B) the author’s surviving children, and the surviving children of any dead child of the author, own the author’s entire termination interest unless there is a widow or widower, in which case the ownership of one-half of the author’s interest is divided among them; (C) the rights of the author’s children and grandchildren are in all cases divided among them and exercised on a per stirpes basis according to the number of such author’s children represented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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