[Fundación Karisma] The organizers of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest will host an #IPWeek October 25-29, 2021. A call-for-proposals will be open soon, and in this edition, we will include a call for creative pieces about the intellectual property / public interest relationship in a post-pandemic world.
[Joshua Yuvaraj] ...This research examines Copyright Office records created each time someone files a notice of termination under §§ 203 or 304 of the Copyright Act. Those sections grant authors and their heirs inalienable rights to end copyright grants and reclaim their rights 35 years after transfer. They were designed to give authors a ‘second bite’ of the cherry, giving some redress in situations like that involving the co-creators of Superman (who sold their rights for just $130 in 1938). We constructed new open access datasets that contain all the termination notices we could locate in the catalog. Our research also analyses who is filing such notices and for what types of work, and how publishers, record companies, and other intermediaries respond when notices are filed against them.