Trademarks on recordings are routinely used to ensure the accuracy of identifying information that music consumers may care about. Yet under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., the federal trademark statute is not concerned with the...

This article explores the potential application of the Copyright Act’s termination provisions to trademark law and ownership. In particular, it suggests that the Copyright Act provisions being invoked by song writers and musicians to terminate the transfer of their music rights to record...