9th Circuit Lets Lassie Come Home (to Estate of Original Creator)
Mon Jul 14, 2008 @ 05:08PM PSTPosted by Eriq Gardner
Are you the member of an estate of a dead author who created a valuable entertainment property? If so, step right up and Marc Toberoff will file your intellectual property claim.
It seems that copyright disputes over claimed royalties are all the rage these days in Hollywood. Not a week goes by without a development on this front.
And Toberoff is front and center in these cases, especially when it comes to termination rights. He vexed Warner Bros. over the Superman character, and on Friday the 9th Circuit ruled that the daughter of the author who wrote the novel "Lassie Come Home" was in her legal right to exercise termination of granted copyright over Lassie. Classic Media had sued Winifred Knight Mewborn, daughter of Lassie author Eric Knight, after she terminated motion picture, television and radio rights to Lassie. At issue was a very technical dispute over agreements made before the 1976 Copyright Act and renewed afterward.
Classic was repped by Bonnie Eskenazi at Greenberg Glusker.
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