Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit October 5, 1998, 96-56778, 97-56040 (Mahlon Dolman v. Michael Agee Michael Agee Productions L & H Records the Nostalgia Archive)

BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge:

In this copyright action, the plaintiff-ap-pellee Mahlon Dolman alleges that the defendants-appellants, Michael Agee, Michael Agee Productions, L & H Records, and The Nostalgia Archive, infringed on Dolman’s copyrights in motion picture soundtrack musical compositions created by Dolman’s stepfather, Leroy Shield, in the 1930s.