Software Agreement. (See ECF No. 217 at 26-27.) The crux of PaySys’s argument is that CCSI only licensed the right to distribute Card-Pac during the initial ten-year exclusive license period; according to PaySys, when that period ended in 1998, so too did its right to appoint distributors. This Court disagrees. A licensee acts outside the scope of a license, and hence may be held liable for copyright infringement, where it continues, to use copyrighted material after the license expires. See, e.g., Kamakazi Music Corp. v. Robbins Music Corp., 684 F.2d 228, 230 (2d Cir. 1982) (“Once the contract had expired, Robbins was liable for infringement of Kamakazi’s copyrights.”); Palmer/Kane LLC v. Rosen Book Works LLC, 204 F.Supp.3d 565, 581-82, 2016 WL 4534896, at *14 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 30, 2016) (<HOLDING>). Here, the parties dispute whether the right
holding that eightnote ostinato infringed copyright in song holding that while the computer program at issue was within the subject matter of copyright the right sought under state law pursuant to a license was not equivalent to the exclusive rights under copyright as such copyright preemption did not apply holding that licensees use of photograph after license expired infringed licensors copyright holding inter alia that a creditor may take a security interest in a licensees liquor license holding that a licensees material breach implicitly gives rise to a licensors right to terminate