Termination is deliberately obscure, but it's incredibly powerful. The copyright scholar @RGibli has studied this extensively, helping to produce the most complete report on how termination has been used by creators of all types:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avoidance-is-evasion/#reverted
Writers, musicians and other artists have used termination to unilaterally cancel the crummy deals they had crammed down their throats 30 years ago.
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Then they either re-sell their works on better terms or make them available directly to the public. Every George Clinton song, every Sweet Valley High novel, and the early works of Steven King have all be terminated and returned to their creators.
Copyright termination should and could be improved.
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Giblin and I wrote a whole-ass book about this and related subjects, #ChokepointCapitalism, which not only details the scams that writers like Willingham are subject to, but also devotes fully half its length to presenting detailed, technical, shovel-ready proposals for making life better for creators:
https://chokepointcapitalism.com/
Willingham is doing something important here.
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