Crosstown Music Co 1 LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd

Subject Matter

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, s 90(2)

[2012] Ch 68; [2011] 2 WLR 779; [2011] Bus LR 383

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