2nd Circuit: Adapter’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Rights Fully Terminated By Author

( July 31, 2025, 9:34 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A panel in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with a New York federal judge that a publishing company’s rights to develop a stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” were fully terminated when Lee served the company with a notice of termination in 2011, rejecting the argument that the company still had rights to stage an adaptation created under an agreement....

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