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Sheldon Abend was born on 13 June 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and actor, known for Original Sin (2001), Why Would I Lie? (1980) and Rear Window (1998).
Sheldon Abend, colorful rep of author estates including those of Damon Runyon, George Bernard Shaw and Tennessee Williams, and whose name is linked with a landmark Supreme Court ruling that ...
Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that a successor copyright owner (one who obtains ownership later on, such as the heirs of a copyright owner who dies) has the exclusive right to permit the creation and exploitation of derivative works, regardless of potentially conflicting agreements by prior copyri...
Apr 25, 1990 · His estate was administered by the Chase Manhattan Bank, which renewed the copyright on the original story and sold the renewed movie rights for $650 to a New York literary agent, Sheldon Abend,...
Sep 22, 2010 · In 2008 the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, which owns the rights to the 1942 Cornell Woolrich short story “It Had to Be Murder,” from which “Rear Window” was adapted, filed suit against...
Sep 9, 2008 · The estate of late film producer Sheldon Abend, who owned the Rear Window rights, is seeking damages. The legal documents claim that Disturbia copies both Rear Window and short story...
Apr 24, 1990 · James STEWART v. Sheldon ABEND. 495 U.S. 207 Decided April 24, 1990. 20 O'CONNOR, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BRENNAN, MARSHALL, BLACKMUN, and KENNEDY, JJ., joined. WHITE, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, post, p. 238.
