Comicbook.com reports Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller won his court battle over copyright issues.
Despite the original director Sean Cunningham's claims that the film was written as a "work-made-for-hire", domestic rights to the property belong to Miller.
I hold that Miller did not prepare the screenplay as a work for hire and that Miller's Second Termination Notice validly terminated Horror?s rights to the copyright in the screenplay to Friday the 13th.
U.S. District Court Judge Stephan Underhill
The termination notice allows authors to terminate rights they granted on projects and reclaim ownership 35 years after publication.
But this rule only applies only to authors. Work-made-for-hire is considered authored by producers.
01-10-2018 - Vidéo