BMI v. Roger Miller Music, Inc.

Outside counsel just brought this sixth circuit case to my attention and I don't recall seeing it discussed here. The court held that "we interpret § 304(a) as providing that, when the copyright to an author's work is renewed after the author's death and that author is survived by a spouse and children, the surviving spouse holds a fifty-percent share in the renewal copyright and the surviving children hold equal divided shares in the remaining fifty-percent."  

A PDF of the opinion is here:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/6th/025766p.pdf Received on Fri Feb 11 2005 - 21:30:30 GMT