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of transfer provisions as "the most explosive and difficult issue" in the revision drafting. ^^ Some criticized the Office's failure to propose a term of life of the author plus 50 years, ■'^ while publishers and motion picture companies criticized the author's proposed ability to terminate an assignment after 20 years. ^* Authors' groups and some scholars, such as Melville Nimmer, supported the termination right, •'^ with some arguing it should apply to all assignments (i.e., regardless of whether there was a continuing obligation to pay royalties) .
In 1963, the Copyright Office circulated a preliminary draft bill.^^ As a result of the Office's abandonment of its earlier proposal that copyright vest upon first public dissemination in favor of copyright vesting automatically upon creation and fixation, alternative approaches to term were offered in Sections 20 and 22. Section 20 covered works created after the effective date of the new law. Section 22 covered works created before the effective date of the new law. Alternative A in Section 20 provided for a term of 75 years from publication or 100 years from creation, whichever occurred first. Alternative B provided for a term of life of the author plus 50 years. Section 22(b) extended the renewal term for 47 years for a total of 75 years, a period that was viewed as roughly equivalent on an actuarial basis to life plus 50. This extra 19 years (28+19=47) was subject to an important right, in Section 22(c) , of the author to terminate the transfer beginning in the first year of the extra 19 years (year 57 of the
^^ Copyright Law Revision Part 6: Supplementary Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law; 1965 Revision Bill. 89th Cong., 1st Sess. 71 (House Comm. Print 1965) .
^^ Id. at 77-107, 229, 235-237, 247, 252-254, 376-377. But see id. at 263-267, 279, 299-300, 353-356, 370, 375-376, 382-383, 413.
^* Id. at 104, 108, 230, 353, 357-358, 360-362.
^^ Id. at 238-239, 248, 258-259, 317, 370, 374, 379, 385, 392393, 415
^^ Copyright Law Revision Part 3; Preliminary Draft for Revised U.S. Copyright Law and Discussions and Comments on the Draft (Sept. 1964).
^^ See Copyright Law Revision Part 4; Further Discussions and Comments on Preliminary Draft for Revised U.S. Copyright Law. 88th Cong., 2d Sess. 17 (House Comm. Print 1964).