{"id":1606,"date":"2015-12-31T14:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2015-12-31T14:12:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T21:12:52","slug":"whos-on-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/whos-on-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s on First?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright cases aren’t usually a lotta laughs, but then, they aren’t usually about this:<\/p>\n

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The heirs of Bud Abbot and Lou Costello claim to own the copyright in their famous “Who’s on First?” bit. They undoubtedly own the copyright on two filmed versions of the skit, because Universal Pictures gave them the copyrights on clips from two 1940s movies in which they performed it. But there are other filmed versions of the skit which are now in the public domain, the copyright protection on the movies having expired, and it is questionable whether anyone “owns” a copyright in the original skit, or indeed whether Abbot and Costello even wrote it.<\/p>\n

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Copyright cases aren’t usually a lotta laughs, but then, they aren’t usually about this: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTcRRaXV-fg The heirs of Bud Abbot and Lou Costello claim to own the copyright in their famous “Who’s on First?” bit. 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