Jacob Maxwell, Inc. v. Veeck

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• composer gave oral permission to play song, attended games where song was played, and urged defendant to keep playing song
• “once a non-breaching party to an express copyright license obtains and exercises a right of rescission by virtue of a material breach of the agreement, any further distribution of the copyrighted material would constitute infringement” (emphasis omitted
• “Such a breach would do no more than entitle [the composer] to rescind the agreement and revoke its permission to play the song in the future, actions [the composer] did not take during the relevant period. One party’s breach does not automatically cause [rescission] of a bilateral contract.”

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