Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In US law, these rights belong to the holder of the copyright, who may sell (or "option") them to someone in the film industry—usually a producer or director, or sometimes a specialist broker of such properties—who will then try to gather industry professionals and secure the financial backing necessary to convert the property into a film ...
The first-sale doctrine (also sometimes referred to as the "right of first sale" or the "first sale rule") is a legal concept that limits the rights of an intellectual property owner to control resale of products embodying its intellectual property. The doctrine enables the distribution chain of copyrighted products, library lending, giving ...
In the film industry, an option agreement is a contract that "rents" the rights to a source material to a potential film producer. [1] It grants the film producer the exclusive option to purchase rights to the source material if they live up to the terms of the contract and make a film (or series) from it. This is known as optioning the source ...
Disney owned the rights to adapt all of Baum's books except The Wizard of Oz, but this did not matter because by 1985 both The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz were in the public domain. The only element that Return to Oz used from the 1939 film was the ruby slippers – in the book, there were silver shoes. The ruby slippers had become so ...
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to make a Netflix adaptation of the book ‘Meet Me at the Lake’ by Carley Fortune, according to reports Harry and Meghan ‘buy film rights’ to ...
The ninth annual "BSA Global Software Piracy Study" claims that the "commercial value of this shadow market of pirated software" was worth US$63.4 billion in 2011, with the highest commercial value of pirated PC software existent in the U.S. during that time period (US$9,773,000).
Hollywood loves a "true story" — from glitzy biopics about iconic musicians to buzzy dramas based on real-life scandals. "Having the life rights is really a legal protection more than anything ...
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has pacted with TelevisaUnivision-affiliated Videocine to handle the international sales on horror pic “Don’t Leave the Kids Alone” by Emilio Portes ...