Superman’s Copyright Saga
The creators of Superman sold their rights for just $130 in 1938, igniting decades of lawsuits over ownership and fair treatment. Now, the battle continues as Shuster’s heir claims to hold certain foreign rights…
US Copyright Office Defends Artists’ Rights to Terminate their Copyright Transfers
UPDATE: You can find Authors Alliance’s comment on the Copyright Office’s proposed rulemaking here. “Termination of Transfer,” is a legal
Top Gun and Termination of Transfer
Termination of transfer has been in the news lately with a dispute over the release of a sequel to the
Quantifying Copyright Reversion
Authors Alliance is grateful to Cory Doctorow for sharing this piece, originally published on Pluralistic.net under a CC BY license.
Spotlight on Rights Reversion & Termination of Transfer
Readers familiar with Authors Alliance’s work will know that we offer a suite of resources to help authors get back
Q&A with Dr. Elizabeth Vercoe on Terminating Transfers of Copyright
Called “one of the most inventive composers working in America today” by The Washington Post, Dr. Elizabeth Vercoe has been
Authors Alliance Supports Copyright Office Proposal to Develop Termination Tools
Authors Alliance has submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office in support of its proposal to develop sample templates for
New Report on Termination Rights for Authors
Last week, Public Knowledge released Making Sense of the Termination Right: How the System Fails Artists and How to Fix
Authors Alliance Submits Brief Supporting Reversionary Rights in Canada
Canada’s Copyright Act, last updated in 2012 through the Copyright Modernization Act, is currently under review. In early 2018, Canada’s
Everything he does, he does it for us. Why Bryan Adams is on to something important about copyright
The following post, by Authors Alliance founding member Rebecca Giblin, originally appeared in The Conversation under a CC-BY-ND license. Read