736 F. Supp. 261 - Korman v. Iglesias’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2011
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
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) · 17 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 506 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Jenkins v. McKeithen · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Copyright Act neglected to provide for remedies between co-authors.... The District of Columbia, Second, and Ninth Circuits have held and Congress must have intended that co-authors may claim for an accounting ... under common law principles since the Copyright Act makes no mention of how co-authors should enforce their rights to royalties as against each other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Joint authors co-owning copyright in a work are deemed to be tenants in common, with each having an independent right to use or license the copyright, subject only to a duty to account to the other co-owner for any profits owned thereby.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodman v. Lee“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a civil action or proceeding under this chapter may be commenced at any time within 5 years after the conduct in violation of a provision of this act terminates or the cause of action accrues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.