Cadkin composed music for 1940s, 1950s and 1960s TV series, films and cartoons including Gumby[3] and Hanna-Barbera's Augie Doggie.
He was born in August 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, the youngest of three children to Isadore and Sarah Cadkin, who had emigrated from the Russian Empire in 1905.
Cadkin was an associate editor of ASCAP's ‘The Score’ when it was created in 1948, and got a job in 1958 as musical director at Ritco Productions, a low-budget company that churned out westerns starring Forrest Tucker.
Billboard of December 23, 1967 reveals distribution rights to that music, previously in the PMS, OK and PM libraries, which had belonged to Capitol, had been purchased by Emil Ascher, Inc.[9] Emil Cadkin is widely credited with the idea for, and the creation of, the United States' first production music libraries (PMS, OK & PM) in the early 1950s.
1941)) held that a defendant could recover attorney's fees under Section 505 when a plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the action without prejudice.
Rather than amending the complaint, plaintiff voluntarily dismissed without prejudice, and the district court ultimately awarded defendants attorney's fees.
2008) (holding voluntary dismissal with prejudice of copyright claims confers prevailing party status on defendants under Buckhannon); Torres-Negron v. J & N Records, LLC, 504 F.3d 151 (1st Cir.
The Ninth Circuit concluded "Because the plaintiffs in this lawsuit remained free to refile their copyright claims against the defendants in federal court following their voluntary dismissal of the complaint, we hold the defendants are not prevailing parties and thus not entitled to the attorney's fees the district court awarded them.