Perspective
Dec. 3, 2014
VIDEO: More than one way to terminate copyright
Some literary estates might want to pay attention to a little-known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act. By John M. Griffin
Songwriters of the '70s are hustling down to courthouses around the country to take advantage of the 35-year termination provision written into the 1976 Copyright Act. However, there's a little known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act that ought to get some novelists' heirs lining up right alongside them. No, the 1909 act doesn't have a termination clause you missed - but some literary estates might want to pay attentio...
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