Scott Graham, Law.com; Game of Life Copyright Dispute Meets 'Day of Reckoning'
"Markham died in 1993. His heirs sued in 2015, invoking a provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 that allows authors to terminate licenses after 56 years in certain circumstances.
But that provision excludes works for hire, and Smith concluded that
the Game of Life is a work for hire that was commissioned by Klamer and
produced by Markham’s company. “The weight of the evidence in this case
is that the success that met the Game of Life was, in fact, nothing if
not the result of collective effort,” Smith concluded. “And although the
credit, in the colloquial sense, can be split pro rata, the law
dictates that the copyrights cannot be.”"
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Thursday, January 31, 2019
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