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Malpractice Claims and Supplemental Jurisdiction
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania decided it has supplemental jurisdiction over a legal malpractice claim included in a suit over renewal rights to the 1970s hit 'Disco Inferno.' Dimensional Music Publishing LLC v. Kersey, 05-6437. 'Disco Inferno' had been included in Dimensional's $42.8 million purchase of the majority of the catalog of DreamWorks Music Publishing, a successor-in-interest to the original publisher to which 'Inferno' co-writer Ron Kersey had assigned his 50% share of the song. Dimensional Music filed suit for a declaratory judgment that it owned the renewal rights to Kersey's share. The district court decided that the renewal rights will vest in Dimensional, if Kersey's original 1977 assignment of the song rights is found valid.
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