Mr. Gable is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in copyright, intellectual property, music and entertainment law, environmental law and mediation. His clients include major film studios; independent record labels; film producers; songwriters, recording artists, novelists, screenwriters and their estates; internet and new media companies; and numerous other parties within the film, music and technology industries. Among other things, he is an authority 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 GableTerminations of Copyright TransfersWith the passage of the 1976 Copyright Act, Congress created an entirely new property right under U.S. law – a right of authors and their successors to recapture ownership of valuable copyrights by “terminating” past assignments and licenses of those works after a prescribed period of time. Termination rights are perhaps the most important rights an author has under the U.S. Copyright Act.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. The area lies at the frontier of international copyright law, custom and practice. |