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SIEGEL v. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Case No. CV-04-8400-SGL (RZx).

658 F.Supp.2d 1036 (2009)

Joanne SIEGEL and Laura Siegel Larson, Plaintiffs, v. WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.; Time Warner Inc.; and DC Comics, Defendants.

United States District Court, C.D. California, Eastern Division.

August 12, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Bruce Linden, Keith Gregory Adams, Marc Toberoff, Nicholas Calvin Williamson, Rafael Gomez-Cabrera, Marc Toberoff Law Offices, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Anjani Mandavia, David L. Burg, Michael Bergman, Adam Beriah Hagen, Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall, Beverly Hills, CA, James D. Weinberger, Roger L. Zissu, Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, Jonathan Zavin, Loeb & Loeb LLP, New York, NY, Patrick T. Perkins, Perkins Law Offices, Cold Spring, NY, for Defendants.

ORDER RESOLVING ADDITIONAL ISSUES

STEPHEN G. LARSON, District Judge.

The 1976 Copyright Act contains many intricate formalities that an author (or his or her heirs) must navigate to successfully terminate the grant to the copyright in an original work of authorship, but perhaps none is more fundamental an impediment than the one excluding from the reach of termination the copyright "in a work made for hire." 17 U.S.C. § 304(c); see 1 MELVILLE...

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