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Billy-Bob Teeth Saves Porn Star: Coping With Defective Work-For-Hire Registrations, Thomas G. Field
Billy-Bob Teeth Saves Porn Star: Coping With Defective Work-For-Hire Registrations, Thomas G. Field
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “This paper begins by briefly reviewing statutory provisions that determine initial copyright ownership, govern title transfers, establish requisites to infringement litigation, and bar untimely suits.
It then examines Billy-Bob Teeth and Jules Jordan Video and explains how, in the latter case, the Ninth Circuit applied rationales adopted by the Seventh Circuit in the former case to overturn a JMOL unfavorable to an "adult film" star.
The third part of the paper reviews use of the copyright statute of limitations to resolve competing ownership claims.
The last part of the paper, flagging important differences between § 201(b) and § 204(a), …