Opinion ID: 573138
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Heading: The Scott Contracts

Text: 27 We held in Select-A-Seat that the licensing contract was executory because the licensor had the continuing obligation not to sell its software packages to other parties and the licensee had an obligation to pay specified royalties. Select-A-Seat, 625 F.2d at 292. Scott and Campbell properly point out that the four contracts all contain: (1) a royalty obligation contingent upon future distributions of the movies outside Canada and the United States; (2) a promise by Scott and Campbell not to sell any production rights to third parties; and (3) obligations to indemnify for breaches and cooperate in joint defense with Qintex. 28 In spite of these facts, we affirm. Scott and Campbell have contractually given all their future rights to Qintex. Scott and Campbell signed away all rights of any kind or nature, whether now or hereafter known, in and to and derived from the product ... of [Scott's] services hereunder and all material contained therein, in all media throughout the world.... (Scott Contract p 5.1) In Select-A-Seat, the debtor owned the software but was under a continuing obligation not to sell its software to third parties. Id. at 292. Scott and Campbell lack any future rights to the fruits of Scott's acting services. 29 At the time of the bankruptcy filing, Scott had finished acting for the four television contracts. Campbell and Scott, like the authors in Learning Publications and Stein and Day, had substantially completed their duties under the contracts. The four television contracts contain no substantial unperformed duties owed by Scott and Campbell to Qintex. See In re Munple, 868 F.2d 1129 at 1130-31 (9th Cir.1989) (services rendered after the signing of a commission agreement by a brokerage firm were not essential to the contract and therefore did not render contract executory). The record supports the district court's order that the Scott contracts were not executory and were properly sold pursuant to § 363.