Copyright Reversion

Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Creators Paid

Joshua Yuvaraj (University of Auckland), Rebecca Giblin (Melbourne Law School)

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English

Cambridge University Press
09 October 2025

Media studies; International law; International communications & telecommunications law; Intellectual property law; Digital lifestyle

Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law

Copyright is meant to promote access to knowledge and culture and reward creators. But around the world, publishers, record labels and other investors continue to hoover up the rights and rewards due to creators and leave masses of creativity locked away from the public. This book shows why this bargain is broken, and how reverting copyright to creators can help redress it – allowing them to revitalise old works, turbocharged by technological advances that are providing more opportunities to do so than ever before. With cutting-edge empirical and doctrinal analysis of dominant reversion models from the United States, the Commonwealth and the EU, the book provides policymakers and academics with best-practice principles for designing reversion mechanisms that can help copyright laws do a better job of supporting the public interest in access while helping artists get paid. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

By: Joshua Yuvaraj (University of Auckland), Rebecca Giblin (Melbourne Law School)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 438g
ISBN: 9781009334822
ISBN 10: 1009334824
Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 09 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Reversion's potential; 2. Statutory reversion rights in the British commonwealth; 3. US termination rights; 4. Statutory reversion rights in Europe; 5. Contractual reversion rights; 6. Best-practice principles for copyright reversion mechanisms.

Joshua Yuvaraj is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. In 2021 he won the Mollie Holman Award for best law doctoral thesis at Monash University. Rebecca Giblin is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow at Melbourne Law School. She is the author of Chokepoint Capitalism (with Cory Doctorow, 2022).