Reed Smith’s Copyright Termination Bootcamp: Reclaiming Rights, Unlocking Value and Navigating Risk

Join Reed Smith’s Entertainment & Media Group for a practical examination of the U.S. copyright termination framework, including how these rights can be identified, exercised, valued, and addressed in commercial transactions. Whether you are seeking to recover rights in valuable works, evaluating an investment in intellectual property, or advising creators or their estates, understanding copyright termination is essential to protecting and maximizing the value of creative assets.

Our international team will offer practical insights into copyright termination rights in the United States, as well as copyright reversion and related rights in the UK and other jurisdictions.

Topics will include:

• Opportunities for authors and heirs: Identifying potentially recoverable copyrights, evaluating the benefits of termination, and developing strategies to reclaim, renegotiate or monetize rights.
• Music catalog acquisitions and investments: Assessing termination exposure in due diligence, understanding implications for asset valuations, and addressing termination risks in deal structuring and documentation.
• Navigating the termination process: Eligibility requirements, statutory timelines, notice procedures, common pitfalls and strategies for both authors and existing rights holders.
• Maximizing the value of recovered rights: Commercial considerations surrounding ownership, licensing, administration and potential sales or other transactions following termination.
• Estate and succession planning: Identifying copyright termination rights as potentially valuable assets, understanding who is entitled to exercise those rights following an author’s death, and incorporating termination considerations into estate and succession planning.
• Termination rights in divorce and marital settlement agreements: Assessing whether termination rights are marital property, how they are valued and divided, and how to address them in settlement agreements.
• International considerations: Understanding key differences between U.S. copyright termination rights and reversion regimes in the UK and other jurisdictions.

We look forward to welcoming you. If there are questions or issues you would like our speakers to address, please let us know in advance.

CLE Information: This program is presumptively approved for 1.0 CLE credit in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. Applications for CLE credit will be filed in Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Virginia. Attendees who are licensed in other jurisdictions will receive a uniform certificate of attendance, but Reed Smith only provides credit for the states listed. Please allow 4-6 weeks after the program to receive a certificate of attendance.

FOR VIEWERS OF RECORDED ON-DEMAND PROGRAMS: To receive CLE credit, you will need to notify Learning & Development CLE Attendance once you have viewed the recorded program on-demand. 

**Please note - CLE credit for on-demand viewing is only available in California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia. Credit availability expires two years from the date of the live program.

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