Mealey's (August 22, 2018, 12:28 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A grant of summary judgment in favor of two defendants accused of violating state law protections for sound recordings originally fixed before 1972 was reversed Aug. 20 by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which found — among other things — that the remastered recordings do not qualify as derivative works and that a California local rule for class action certification conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (ABS Entertainment Inc., et al. v. CBS Corporation, et al., No. 16-55917, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 23097)....