Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles

Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Argued February 27, 1923
Decided March 12, 1923
Full case name Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Citations 261 U.S. 326 (more)
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 had he continued to survive.
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
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.[1]

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)
  • Text of Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles, 261 U.S. 326 (1923) is available from:  Cornell  Justia 
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