United States Eleventh Circuit

In case involving a rap artist who sold copyrights to works for future royalties to a recording company that went bankrupt, summary judgment for defendants who bought copyrights from bankrupt company is affirmed where plaintiff missed his chance through the bankruptcy to recover some of the royalty money he would have been owed by the bankrupt company.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/05/2007
• Published 02/05/2007

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and LAWSON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Wm. Boone, Law Offices of David Wm. Boone, P.C., Terry Dale Jackson, Law Office of Terry D. Jackson, Atlanta, GA, for Thompkins.


• For Appellees:
  
• Maureen G. Pearcy, Ronald L. Kammer, Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, Miami, FL, David H. Levitt, Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Appellees.