In Atticus Ltd. Liability Co. v. Dramatic Publishing Co., the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the US District Court for the Southern District of New York’s grant of declaratory relief to Atticus Limited Liability Company, holding that the derivative works exception does not preserve an exclusive license to stage non-first-class adaptations of To Kill A Mockingbird following the author’s termination of the grant.
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Derivative Works Exception Does Not Preserve Exclusive Rights for To Kill a Mockingbird Adaptations: Second Circuit
