US Copyright Law provides authors, artists, musicians and other creative people and their heirs the right to terminate certain prior grants of copyright. Obviously, the termination or “recapture” of copyrights can have huge commercial implications. But the statutory rules governing copyright termination are complex. Who can terminate a copyright grant? What grants can be terminated? How does a copyright owner give notice of an attempt to terminate? And what is the practical effect of termination?

In this course, Frankfurt Kurnit Intellectual Property Litigation Partner Ned Rosenthal presents the basics of copyright termination followed by a discussion of the often complicated issues that arise under the provisions of US Copyright law governing the termination of grants of copyright interests.