The Authors Guild and the Songwriters Guild of America asked the US Copyright Office on Friday to fix “a quirk” in copyright law that could block certain works from the late 70s from being eligible for 35-year termination. Under the 1976 revision of copyright law, authors (and all other copyright holders) are allowed to terminate transfers of their copyrights to publishers after a set number of years, with different provisions for pre- and post-1978 works. Congress made such provision “because of the unequal bargaining position of authors, resulting in part from the impossibility of determining a work’s value until it […]
