This is a guest post by Hana Khan-Tareen, who is a Legal Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. We appreciate her insight on how authors can best protect their rights.
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…
UPDATE: You can find Authors Alliance’s comment on the Copyright Office’s proposed rulemaking here. “Termination of Transfer,” is a legal
Termination of transfer has been in the news lately with a dispute over the release of a sequel to the
Authors Alliance is grateful to Cory Doctorow for sharing this piece, originally published on Pluralistic.net under a CC BY license.
Readers familiar with Authors Alliance’s work will know that we offer a suite of resources to help authors get back
Called “one of the most inventive composers working in America today” by The Washington Post, Dr. Elizabeth Vercoe has been
Authors Alliance has submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office in support of its proposal to develop sample templates for
Last week, Public Knowledge released Making Sense of the Termination Right: How the System Fails Artists and How to Fix
Canada’s Copyright Act, last updated in 2012 through the Copyright Modernization Act, is currently under review. In early 2018, Canada’s
