Articles
Copyright Reversion: A Good Way out o a Bad Deal - Deborah Murad, Esq.(Dramatists Magazine, October 2022)
Lessons In Estate Planning: Jim Morrison Estate - Deborah Murad, Esq. (Dramatists Magazine, January 2023)
A Primer on Literary Executors, Part I - Ellen Brown, Esq.
A Primer on Literary Executors, Part II - Ellen Brown, Esq.
Materials
Copyright Catalog Sample Form with Authorial Intent - This comprehensive form collects the essential information needed for the next generation to manage your work. It collects basic information, from the name of your co-author to where your work is published to what agent is attached to the property. Additionally, this form includes a section for recording authorial intent. In using this form, copyright holders can confidently safeguard their intellectual property rights and simplify the management processes.
Sample Clauses for Dramatist Wills - This invaluable resource provides dramatists with meticulously designed model language to nurture and extend their bond with the Guild and safeguard their copyrights for their full term. Make sure your royalties never go uncollected, your work is always properly managed, and your legacy endures.
OTHER OPTIONS: Estate Membership, Default Mechanism for Ineffective Grants, Right of Publicity, etc.
There are also a range of other testamentary gifts and provisions that you may want to consider for your estate plan, including:
Setting up a DG estate membership in your name, which would allow your heirs to have the benefit of DG contracts and business advice regarding the management of your work;
Granting a limited right of publicity so the Guild and DGCM can continue to celebrate your legacy and promote your work; and
Creating mechanisms for ineffective grants of your work and/or future revenues, so your work does not inadvertently end up in an unproducible limbo or end up giving over any of your undistributable revenue to the state where you lived.
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