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Standing for Copyright Termination (Declaratory Judgment, That Is)

by Pamela Chestek • September 8, 2015 • copyright • 0 Comments

The Copyright Act allows for the termination of any copyright grants given. There are different statutory provisions for it* depending on the date of the original grant (before or after January 1, 1978), whether the author is still alive, and with somewhat different conditions for termination, but they can all be terminated. When the...
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I Don’t See This Going Very Far

by Pamela Chestek • April 1, 2012 • copyright

Ray Charles was either an employee and wrote and performed music in the scope of his employment, or exercised his termination right to his songs in 1980 in settlement of a suit against his publisher, or alternatively the settlement was an assignment of the songs. Shortly before his death in 2004, he granted his...
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