Firm lawyer publishes article on intersection of copyright termination, royalty rights in Daily Journal

March 15, 2024 — Today firm lawyer Kyle O’Malley published an article in the Daily Journal concerning a significant emerging trend: federal courts ruling that royalty sharing agreements are not automatically subject to termination under sections 203 and 304 of the Copyright Act. In the article, Kyle discusses several recent federal court decisions grappling with the question of whether the Copyright Act provisions in question—which allow authors of certain copyrights and their heirs to remonetize their works by terminating unremunerative copyright assignments or licenses after many years—to also terminate royalty sharing arrangements.

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