Panel Affirms:  Rights To ‘Cathy’s Clown’ Repudiated By Don Everly

Mealey's (February 14, 2023, 1:39 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A federal judge in Tennessee did not err in finding that a claim by the heirs of Phil Everly for co-authorship of the song “Cathy’s Clown” is time-barred because his rights to the work were expressly repudiated by his brother, Isaac “Don” Everly, more than three years beforehand, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled....