Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 27, 1923 Decided March 12, 1923
Full case name	Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles
Citations	261 U.S. 326 (more) 43 S. Ct. 365; 67 L. Ed. 680
Case history
Prior	279 F. 1018 (2d Cir. 1922)
Holding
The statute intends that an executor, there being no widow, widower, or child, shall have the same right to renew a copyright for a second term as his testator might have exercised were he still alive.
Court membership
Chief Justice William H. Taft Associate Justices Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. Willis Van Devanter · James C. McReynolds Louis Brandeis · George Sutherland Pierce Butler · Edward T. Sanford
Case opinion
Majority	Holmes, joined by a unanimous court
Laws applied
Copyright Act of 1909

Fox Film Corp. v. Knowles, 261 U.S. 326 (1923), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the statute intends that an executor, there being no widow, widower, or child, shall have the same right to renew a copyright for a second term as his testator might have exercised had he continued to survive.^[1]

This case was reaffirmed in Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc..^[2]

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