Bill Gable is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in copyright, intellectual property, entertainment law, and mediation. His clients include songwriters, recording artists, composers, authors, and their heirs and estates; major film studios; independent record labels; film producers; internet companies; new and traditional media companies; and numerous other parties within the film, music, media and technology industries. He regularly counsels clients on a wide range of copyright, contract and entertainment law issues. Among other things, he has written extensively on terminations of copyright transfers and restoration of copyrights, each of which is discussed at length on this website.
Welcome to the Law Offices of Bill GableCopyright Recapture and Terminations of Copyright TransfersMr. Gable maintains an active practice in terminations of copyright transfers ("copyright recapture"), having represented numerous songwriters, recording artists, authors and their heirs and estates, purchasers and sellers of publishing catalogs, major film studios, media companies, universities and other rights owners and trustees of estates, in the context of both transactions and litigation.Restoration of CopyrightsIn 1994, Congress enacted 17 U.S.C. section 104A, amending the 1976 Copyright Act to provide for the automatic restoration of copyrights in certain foreign works previously in the public domain in the United States. Section 104A's constitutionality is currently before the Supreme Court in Golan v. Holder. |