The Jesus And Mary Chain are the latest artists to test the reach of the termination right under US copyright law by suing their former label Warner Music.The group’s Jim Reid and William Reid say that the major has refused to comply with termination notices they filed under US law and continues to exploit their 1980s recordings in the American market which, they allege, constitutes copyright infringement.Under American law, creators who assign their copyrights to another party have a one-off opportunity to terminate that assignment and reclaim their rights – albeit only within the US – after 35 years.
With the current termination right originating in 1970s law, it only properly kicked in at the start of the last decade, but now plenty of.
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