The Weekly Law Reports
[2011] 2 WLR 779
Court of Appeal
Crosstown Music Co 1 LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd and others
[2010] EWCA Civ 1222
2010 May 27,
28;
Nov 2
Nov 2
Mummery LJ, Morgan J, Sir Paul Kennedy
Copyright— Assignment— Reversion— Songwriters assigning UK and foreign copyrights to claimant’s predecessor— Agreements providing for automatic reversion of rights on occurrence of material breaches that had been notified but not remedied— Agreements expressed to be subject to English law and conferring exclusive jurisdiction on English courts— Whether automatic reverter of copyright on unidentified and uncertain future event falling within transmission of copyright permitted by statute— Whether reverter provision taking effect according to its terms— Whether dispute as to reversion of foreign copyrights justiciable in English courts—
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c 48), s 90(2)