Broadcast Music, Inc. v. Perry L. Hirsch and Marc R. Staenberg v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Beneficial ownership arises by virtue of section 501(b) for the purpose of enabling an author or composer to protect his economic interest in a copyright that has been transferred.”
• “Beneficial ownership arises by virtue of section '501(b) for the purpose of enabling an author or composer to protect his economic interest in a copyright that has been transferred.”
• court must look to substance of transaction rather than form of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).