708 F.Supp. 587, 589 (S.D.N.Y.1989) (author must survive until registration in the renewal year), with Marascalco v. Fantasy, Inc., 953 F.2d 469, 476 (9th Cir.1991) (author must survive until start of the renewal term), but the 1976 Act did not contain the "at the time the application is made” language. 7 . The scenario of a party's gaining an indefeasible right to something prior to actually being eligible to receive it is hardly unusual, and is often presented, for example, in pension law. In ERISA plans, "an employee’s right to his normal retirement benefit is nonforfeitable upon the attainment of normal retirement age,” even though the benefits are not paid until he actually retires. 29 U.S.C. § 1053(a); see also Calabro v. City of Omaha, 247 Neb. 955, 531 N.W.2d 541, 550 (1995) (<HOLDING>). 8 . Because we decide that Sony is the owner
holding that erisa preempted a state court order awarding spousal interest in an employees pension proceeds holding that the family courts award to exwife of interest in 387 of debtors military pension payable directly from the plan was not subject to discharge because interest in pension plan was not a debt rather it was considered exwifes separate ownership interest holding that an employees protected interest in a pension vested before he or she became eligible to collect the pension holding that the defendant withheld pension benefits in breach of the plan holding that under oklahoma law public employee convicted of accepting bribe while in office had no property right in pension benefits because pension was always contingent on maintaining honorable service while in office employees acceptance of bribe constituted breach of duty of honorable service and as result employee had no vested right in pension