Dismissal sought for “meritless” Bernstein suit
Lawyers representing Apple Corps and Subafilms are moving to have the copyright dispute over footage of The Beatles at Shea Stadium thrown out
News By | 21 October 2016
The Beatles’ lawyers have moved to quash a lawsuit by the estate of promoter Sid Bernstein asserting its ownership of footage from the band’s famed 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New…
York, arguing Bernstein had next to no input in filming the show and “never asserted any claim of authorship or copyright ownership in the film of the concert” before his death in 2013.
In a new filing in the Southern District Court of New York, Michael A. Kolcun, of law…
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