Peter Brownstein v. Tina Lindsay

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that joint authors’ ownership rights allow them to convey their interests to other parties
• “Accordingly, the only way for truly exclusive rights to be conveyed to a joint work is for all co-authors to consent to such an exclusive conveyance.”
• “[E]ach coauthor is entitled to convey non-exclusive rights to the joint work without the consent of his co-author.”
• district court erred in ordering cancellation “because there is no statutory indi- cation whatsoever that courts have such authority”
• “Our Circuit has rarely had occasion to venture into the area of joint authorship under the Copyright Act.”
• “[E]ach co-author is entitled to convey non-exclusive rights to the joint work without the consent of his co-author.”

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