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Bill Cornish Memorial Lecture – Author as Revenue Sharer

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Ginsburg began by noting that in 2002 Professor Bill Cornish delivered the Horace S. This examined the problem of authors’ remuneration: authors’ contracts tend to result in disproportionately low revenues relative to the returns of investors and intermediaries. The full lecture is available on YouTube. A summary is offered below.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”? Third, is Trump’s claim of ownership barred by 17 U.S.C. 105 , as a “work of the United States Government”? 105, as a “work of the United States Government”?

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