The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in WELLES v. TURNER ENTERTAINMENT, No. 05-55742, a diversity appeal. The panel consisted of Jerome Farris and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Kevin Thomas Duffy, District Judge.

GOULD, Circuit Judge:
Beatrice Welles, the daughter of screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor Orson Welles, filed suit against Turner Entertainment Co., Entertainment Acquisition Co., and other persons not parties to this appeal (collectively, “the defendants”), seeking a declaratory judgment that Beatrice Welles owns the copyright and home video rights to the motion picture Citizen Kane and seeking an accounting of the royalties she alleges . . .

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