Mealey's (August 23, 2019, 11:37 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 21 reversed a New York federal judge’s holding that a composer’s authorship rights were extinguished by a series of commissioning agreements he entered into with an affiliate of an assignee (Ennio Morricone Music Inc. v. Bixio Music Group Ltd., No. 17-3595, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24880)....