Last week, the Tennessee Supreme Court denied the parents' application to review the Tennessee Court of Appeals' ruling, so that now goes into effect. Here's my post on the Court of Appeals ruling, from February:
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Following the 2023 Covenant School shooting in Nashville, in which the shooter was killed by responding police officers, the shooter's parents inherited the shooter's copyright interest in various writings (including the shooter's manifesto). They then assigned it "to a trust to be held for the benefit of the Covenant Parents' children," and the Covenant Parents argued that this should keep the writings from being released. The trial court agreed, but yesterday's Tennessee Court of Appeals opinion in Brewer v. Metro. Gov't of Nashville (Judge Kristi Davis, joined by Judges John McClarty and Thomas Frierson) basically rejected the copyright argument for nondisclosure:
