Bowen v. Los Angeles Trust & Safe Deposit Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that agreement permitted alleged assignees to “register!] the renewal copyright in the[ir] names ... as co-claimants [just] as [their predecessors] had done for the original copyright registration”
• noting that use of the word “perpetual” conveys renewal rights
• stating that the renewal period “is not merely an extension of the original copyright term but a ‘new estate . . . clear of all rights, interests or licenses granted under the original copyright’”
• noting that use of the word “perpetual” conveys renewal rights
• “ ‘[G]eneral words of assignment can include renewal rights if the parties had so intended.’ ” (emphasis added

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).