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Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports

Jan. 31, 2017

McCartney asks US court for Help!

The famed Beatle is seeking help in the form of a declaratory judgment that his termination under U.S. law of his grants of U.S. copyrights in the Beatles catalogue was not a breach of his publishing agreements.

Kenneth D. Freundlich

Freundlich Law

Litigation, entertainment, business law

16133 Ventura Blvd Ste 1270
Encino , CA 91436

Phone: (310) 275-5350

Fax: (310) 275-5351

Email: ken@freundlichlaw.com

UCLA Law School

Kenneth is a business, entertainment and IP attorney with Freundlich Law in Encino.

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Michael J. Kaiser

Counsel
Freundlich Law

16133 Ventura Blvd Ste 1270
Encino , CA 91436

Phone: (310) 275-5350

Email: mkaiser@freundlichlaw.com

Harvard Univ Law School

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This month, Paul McCartney filed a preemptive lawsuit against the owner of the publishing rights to the Beatles catalogue, Sony/ATV, in a New York federal court. McCartney v. Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 17-cv-363 (S.D.N.Y., filed Jan. 18, 2017). The famed Beatle is seeking help in the form of a declaratory judgment that his termination under U.S. law of his grants of U.S. copyrights in the Beatles catalogue was not a breach of his publishing agreements. McCartney's lawsuit come...

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