Greenfield v. Philles Records, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that unconditional transfer of ownership rights in the context of a work of art, unless limited by the terms of the contract, conveyed complete ownership rights
• noting that if “complete, clear and unambiguous on its facet, such an exclusion] must be enforced according to the plain meaning of its terms”
• holding that where an agreement is “complete, clear and unambiguous on its face,” it should “be enforced according to the plain meaning of its terms” and that extrinsic evidence “may be considered only if the agreement is ambiguous.”
• holding a “written agreement that is complete, clear and unambiguous on its face must be enforced according to the plain meaning of its terms”
• providing that extrinsic evidence may be considered to interpret a contract only if the agreement is ambiguous
• noting that if “complete, clear 13 and unambiguous on its face[, such an exclusion] must be enforced according to the plain 14 meaning of its terms”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).