[governance] IP-Watch: “Works for Hire” A Key Issue As Music Stars Begin Terminating Copyright Transfers

[Riaz K Tayob]

An interesting development. Are we seeing the emergence of a sector 
specific approach to IPRs in the US? And will this be part of the US 
exceptional situation or exported as part of the functional development 
of IPRs?

Wonder how this will be viewed from the laissez faire normative 
perspective also.

This is posted because of potential implications of IPR-censorship 
issues and or IPR control on the net, and the political economy of how 
this plays out.

Riaz

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March 05, 2013. “Works for Hire” A Key Issue As Music Stars Begin 
Terminating Copyright Transfers

Courts in the United States are beginning to interpret a Copyright Act 
of 1976 provision allowing authors of protected works to terminate their 
rights assignments beginning this year. Intellectual property attorneys 
appear to differ over the importance of the recent rulings, but they 
agree that the battle line in termination cases between the recording 
industry and artists will be drawn over whether or not a piece of music 
was created for hire.

Link to the article: 
http://www.ip-watch.org/?p=27116&utm_source=post&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts



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