The following excerpt is from Oddo v. Ries, 743 F.2d 630 (9th Cir. 1984):
3 In Carter v. Bailey, 64 Me. 458 (1874), the co-owners of the copyright originally were partners, but by the time of the acts complained of they had dissolved the partnership and held the copyright as tenants in common.
4 Hereafter references to the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C., will be by section number only.
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