Copyright Office.” 1981 Agreement ¶ 3(a). EMI did not receive a copy of the Copyright Office’s letter rejecting the 1981 Notice. 85 . Pl. Mem. at 19. 86 . See id. at 21. 87 . Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment (“PL Opp. Mem.”) at 51 (citing Steinbeck, 537 F.3d at 202) ("[N]othing in the [Copyright Act] is intended to change the existing state of the law of contracts concerning the circumstances in which an author may cancel or terminate a license, transfer, or assignment.”). 88 . 1981 Agreement at p. 1. 89 . Under the 1909 Copyright Act, the 28 year Renewal Term began in 1961 and ended in 1990. 90 . 1981 Agreement at pp. 5-6. 91 . 1981 Notice at 1. 92 . 1981 Agreement ¶ 3(a) (emphasis added). 93 . Id. Cf. Steinbeck, 537 F.3d at 201 (<HOLDING>). 94 . See 1981 Agreement ¶ 4(a). 95 . Id. ¶ 1
holding that an arbitration agreement is separable from the underlying agreement holding that an agreement providing this agreement when signed by author and publisher will cancel and supercede the previous agreements  was clearly intended to terminate an earlier agreement holding that noncompliance with terms of agreement did not terminate agreement failure to comply with date requirement in termination procedure rendered termination ineffective and letter between nonparty and party could not terminate agreement holding that agreement referencing rights and remedies of another agreement was subject to the referenced agreements arbitration clause holding that where one party had received a written agreement and conformed his conduct to that agreement for an extended period of time but failed to sign the agreement he was equitably estopped from denying the validity of the agreement