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The Sole Right ... Shall Return to the Authors Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive Faculty Scholarship Faculty Publications 2010 "The Sole Right ... Shall Return to the Authors": Anglo-American Authors' Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to Contemporary U.S. Copyright Lionel Bently Jane C. Ginsburg Columbia Law School, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Contracts Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Lionel Bently & Jane C. Ginsburg, "The Sole Right ... Shall Return to the Authors": Anglo-American Authors' Reversion Rights from the Statute of Anne to Contemporary U.S. Copyright, 25 BERKELEY TECH. L. J. 1475 (2010). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/552 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Scholarship Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Archive. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "THE SOLE RIGHT... SHALL RETURN TO THE AUTHORS" 1: ANGLO-AMERICAN AUTHORS' REVERSION RIGHTS FROM THE STATUTE OF ANNE TO CONTEMPORARY U.S. COPYRIGHT Lionel Bentyt &Jane C Ginsburgt TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .................................... 1477 II. THE REVERSION RIGHT IN BRITAIN FROM 1710 TO 1814....................... ................ 1480 A. STATUTE OF ANNE: ORIGINS OF SECTION 11 ....................... 1480 1. The Purpose of the Contingent Reversion ............. ..... 1482 2. Wy a Reversion Right Rather than Regulation ofAuthor- Publisher Contracts? .......................... ..... 1487 B. IMPACT OF SECTION 11 ON AUTHORS AND BOOKSELLERS........... 1491 1. ContractualPractice After 1710............. ........ 1494 a) Formalities ....................................... 1500 b) Interest Transferred ............... ............... 1502 c) Duration of Transfer............... .................... 1504 d) Exclusion of Statute ................ ............. 1505 e) Explicit Reference to the Reversionary Term............. 1506 f) Other Aspects of Contracts ................ ..... 1508 2. How Was the Reversion Understood?....................... 1514 a) 1710-1765: A Plurality of Interpretations................... 1515 t Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, University of Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Special thanks to Yin Ham Lee, University of Cambridge, LLM Class of 2009-2010, for her excellent research assistance, which was funded by the Herchel Smith Intellectual Property Research Fund at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; and to Tomis G6mez-Arostegui for his help in relation to obtaining inforimation relating to various eighteenth-century legal proceedings. Professor Bently is the author of Part 11 of this study. --t Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia University School of Law. Thanks to Mark Musico, Columbia Law School, Class of 2011, for his excellent research assistance. Thanks also for comments and suggestions to Prof. Jessica Litman and to the members of the Columbia Law School faculty workshop. Professor Ginsburg is the author of Part III of this study. 1. Act for the Encouragement of Learning (Statute of Anne), 8 Ann., c. 19, § 11 (1710) (Gr. Brit.) [hereinafter Statute of Anne]. 1476 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL [Vol. 25:1475 b) Millar & Dodsly v. Taylor (1765): The First Ruling on Assignability .............. ........ 1518 c) 1765-1774: Common Law Copyright and the Redundancy of the Reversion Right............................. 1521 d) 1774-1785: Attention Returns to the Statute of A nne .............. .................................... 1522 e) 1785-1787: Judicial Interpretation of Section 11 in Rennett v. Thompson, Rennett v. Longman & Broderip, Carnan v. Bowles, and Cadell v. Anderson.......... 1526 f) 1787-1814: Deciphering Carnan v. Bowles.................... 1532 3. Evidence of Use of Reversion .......................... 1535 C. THE DEMISE OF THE REVERSION RIGHT IN 1814 ........................... 1541 III. UNITED STATES ................................... 1549 A. THE CONSTITUTIONAL COPYRIGHT CLAUSE AND THE FIRST COPYRIGHT ACT ......................................... 1549 B. SUBSEQUENT STATUTES AND CASE LAW PRECEDING THE 1909 ACT............................ ............... 1550 C. 1909 ACT............................................... 1555 1. Legislative H istory........................ ................................ 1555 2. The 1909 Act Renewal Term in Court: To Authors or To TheirA ssigns?............. ................................... 1562 D. REVERSION RIGHTS UNDER THE 1976 COPYRIGHT ACT............... 1564 1. Termination of Contracts Concluded Under the 1976 Copyright A ct .............................................................. 1564 2. Reversion Rights in Works Whose 1909 Act Copyrghts Were Still Subsisting...... .... ................................... 1568 3. No Reversion Rights in Unpublished Works.................................... 1570 E. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 1976 ACT REVERSION RIGHTS ........... 1571 1. Summay of Termination Provisions ... ...................... 1571 2. Case Law........................................... 1572 a) Adequacy of Notice to Grantees .................................. 1573 b) Scope of the Derivative Works Exception to Termination .......................................1575 c) Inalienability: "Any Agreement to the Contrary"....... 1580 IV. CONCLUSION ...................................... 1586 APPENDIX: EVOLUTION OF U.S. AUTHORS' REVERSIO N RIGH TS ............................. ................................ 1588 20101 ANGLO-AMERICAN AUTHORS' REVERSION RIGHTS 1477 I. INTRODUCTION The rise in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of a professional class of writers stimulated authors' demands for better remuneration from their writings.2 The increase in authors who sought to live from their work, 2. The emergence of a profession of authors in the eighteenth century was recognized by contemporaries. See, e.g., 5 JAMES BOSWELL, BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON, TOGETHER WITH BOSWELL's JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF THE HEBRIDES AND JOHNSON's DIARY OF A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES 59 (G.B. Hill ed., 1934); Oliver Goldsmith, 'LetterLXXXIII from Lien ChiAltangi, to Fum Hoam, first President of the CeremonialAcademy at Pekin, in China," in OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 2 LETTER FROM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD TO HIS FRIENDS IN THE EAST 127, 130 (J. & R. Childs pub., Bungay 1820) (1762) ("At present, the few poets of England no longer depend on the great for subsistence; they have now no other patrons but the public, and the public, collectively considered, is a good and generous master ..... ; Q.R.S., On the Expedieng of Instituting a Literay Sodety on a Prudential and Permanent Plan, WESTMINSTER MAG., 1773, at 368, 370 ("literary patronage among the Great has ceased . literary property has risen upon its ruins . ."); Letter from Philistor John Pinkerton to the People of Great Britain, in 58 The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE: AND HISTORICAL CHRONICLE 125, 126 (London, John Nichols 1788) (describing booksellers as "the sole patrons of literature in this country," and suggesting that some level of patronage by "the Great" might be desirable in order to allow publication of works of high importance even though they would not meet with "public taste"); On the HistoU ofAuthors by Profession, BEE, LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, May 11, 1791, reprinted in 3 THE BEE, OR LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, CONSISTING OF ORIGINAL PIECES, AND SELECTIONS FROM PERFORMANCES OF MERIT, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 13 (James Anderson ed., Edinburgh, Mundell and Son) (recognizing shift, but arguing, however, that authors were "subjected to a new dependence," that is, upon publishers); A VINDICATION OF THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF AUTHORS TO THEIR OWN WORKS: A SUBJECT Now UNDER CONSIDERATION BEFORE THE TWELVE JUDGES OF ENGLAND 38-40 (London 1762) [hereinafter VINDICATION], in PRIMARY SOURCES ON COPYRIGHT (1450-1900) (L. Bently & M. Kretchmer eds., 2008) [hereinafter PSoq, http://www.copyrighthistory.org/cgi- bin/kleioc/0010/exec/ausgabe/%22uk_1762b%22. Historians of literature have confirmed the claim, though with different emphases on the timing and extent of the shift. See, e.g., VICTOR BONHAM-CARTER, AUTHORS BY PROFESSION (1978); RICHARD B. SHER, THE ENLIGHTENMENT & THE BOOK: SCOTrISH AUTHORS & THEIR PUBLISHERS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, IRELAND, & AMERICA ch. 3 (2006) (acknowledging that "the professionalization of authorship ... increased dramatically during the eighteenth century" but highlighting that the changes did not represent a simple shift from "aristocratic patronage" to patronage by booksellers or the public); John Feather, John Nourse and HisAuthors, 34 STUD. BIBLIOGRAPHY 205 (1981) ("[fIt was in the eighteenth century that authorship, for the first time, became a viable profession for a substantial number of practitioners."); Dustin Griffin, The Rise of the ProfessionalAuthor?, in 5 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BOOK: 1695-1830, at 132 (Michael F. Suarez & Michael L. Turner eds., 2009); see also JAMES G. HEPBURN, THE AUTHOR'S EMPTY PURSE AND THE RISE OF THE LITERARY AGENT (1968) (noting that Alexander Pope "was possibly the first eminent writer earning his living by his pen who was freely able to do so"); Peter Lindenbaum, Author and Publishers in the Late Seventeenth Centu, II: Brabazon Aylmer and the Mysteries of the Trade, 3 LIBR. 32 (2002)
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