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Perspective

Sep. 12, 2012

Termination of copyright transfers and probate proceedings

In some cases, statutory parties may have the right to override and "bump" the parties named in the will and the transfer by will to those parties will likely be ineffective. By Ivan Hoffman


By Ivan Hoffman


Suppose that one of your "author" clients mentioned in Part 1 (Sept. 10) is either planning a will or you represent the beneficiaries under that will or you represent the widow, widower or children of a deceased testator or of someone who died intestate or you represent a "Grantee" from one of these parties. Suppose further that the will intends to leave or has left copyright interests or contract rights in copyright interests ...

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