Copyright
Y-M-C-A: VILLAGE PEOPLE FRONT MAN SCORES EARLY VICTORY IN COPYRIGHT TRANSFER TERMINATION WARS
January 1, 2013 is a date that has long been circled on music industry calendars. It will mark the 35th anniversary of the 1978 effective date of the Copyright Act of 1976, and is the day authors and artists can be begin to take advantage of the Act’s liberalized copyright transfer termination provisions. (Paul Goldstein’s…
Read MoreBOOK REPORT: “HAVANA REQUIEM”
THIS POST CONTAINS NO SPOILERS! A flawed, fallen hero seeking redemption, a sultry Cuban femme fatale, a corrupt cop, alternately suave and brutish, a mysterious disappearance, double-crosses, diplomatic intrigue, and the ultimate vindication of authors’ termination rights under Section 304(c)(4) of the Copyright Act—these are the things from which copyright lawyers’ dreams, and Paul Goldstein’s…
Read MoreBOOK REPORT: “HOLLYWOOD’S COPYRIGHT WARS”
Under the Copyright Act “copyright protection subsists . . . in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression.” This simple formulation is never more problematic than when applied to the highly collaborative, highly derivative, and oftentimes hugely expensive and risky art and craft of film. Who is the author? What counts…
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