Frederick Music Co. v. Sickler’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2012
6 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons · Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc. · Bryant v. North Carolina · Picture Music, Inc. v. Bourne, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1976 Act provided, in relevant part: Any copyright, the first term of which is subsisting on January 1, 1978, shall endure for twenty-eight years from the date it was originally secured ... provided ... that in the case of any other copyrighted work ... the author of such work, if still living ... shall be entitled to a renewal and extension of the copyright in such work for a further term of forty-seven years when application for such renewal and extension shall have been made to the Copyright Office and duly registered therein within one year prior to the expiration of the original term of copyright.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a copyright is renewed by or on behalf of the author during the statutorily provided period, the author becomes ‘entitled’ to the extension of the original copyright. And this entitlement arises ‘when application for such renewal and extension shall have been made to' the Copyright Office and duly registered therein.’ There is no mention of surviv-orship in the language of the statute. Thus, the renewal copyright plainly vests in the author or his assignee upon application and registration with the Copyright Office, if the author is still living at the time of such application and registration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.