Brian Wilson's Ex-Wife Wins Remand Back to State Court of Her Claim to Share of Revenues from Sale of His Song Catalog
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California decided that federal copyright law didn't preempt a claim by Marilyn Wilson Rutherford, the former wife of Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson, to a share — under a 1981 judgment dissolving her marriage with Brian — of his income from the December 2021 sale of his song rights to Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG).
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