So courts allowed exclusive licensees to compulsively join the copyright holder as a plaintiff in such suits.
This would result in a forfeiture of any copyright protection and an injection of the work into the public domain.
[2] As detailed below, this harsh result was mostly abrogated by Goodis v. United Artists Television, Inc.
Assignees of rights in a copyrighted work now have standing to directly file suit against infringers.
[4] Mifflin v. R. H. White Company This article relating to law in the United States or its constituent jurisdictions is a stub.