A copyright time bomb has been quietly ticking away for the music and publishing industry for nearly 30 years — and may soon explode into a plethora of legal disputes over ownership rights, intellectual property litigators say.
The Copyright Act of 1976 gave artists, songwriters and authors a new right: the power to recapture control of works sold early in their careers before the value became known.
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