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1923 United States Supreme Court case
Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 27, 1923
Decided March 12, 1923
Full case nameFox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Citations261 U.S. 326 (more)43 S. Ct. 365; 67 L. Ed. 680
Case history
Prior279 F. 1018 (2d Cir. 1922)
Holding
The statute intends that an executor, there being no widow, widower, or child, shall have the same right to renew a copyright for a second term as his testator might have exercised were he still alive.
Court membership
Chief Justice
William H. Taft
Associate Justices
Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr.
Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds
Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland
Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinion
MajorityHolmes, joined by a unanimous court
Laws applied
Copyright Act of 1909

Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles, 261 U.S. 326 (1923), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the statute intends that an executor, there being no widow, widower, or child, shall have the same right to renew a copyright for a second term as his testator might have exercised had he continued to survive.

This case was reaffirmed in Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc..

References

  1. Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles, 261 U.S. 326 (1923).
  2. Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc., 362 U.S. 373 (1960).

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