Just in time for Christmas, Southern District Judge Shira Scheindlin (See Profile) has ruled that music publisher EMI can keep the rights to the 1934 hit song “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” for another 25 years, leaving the family of co-songwriter John Frederick Coots out in the cold.
The family members sued EMI in 2011 after repeatedly serving notices that they were terminating their copyright agreement with EMI. The Copyright Act of 1976 gives copyright licensors the right to terminate an agreement after a certain amount of time. A licensor can only serve a notice of termination once.
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