T] he termination right was expressly intended to relieve authors of the consequences of ill-advised and unremunerative grants that had been made before the author had a fair opportunity to appreciate the true value of his work product. "(footnote omitted

In construing a federal statute it is appropriate to assume that the ordinary meaning of the language that Congress employed `accurately expresses the legislative purpose

Congress would not have stated explicitly in § 304 (c)(6)(A) that, at the end of the renewal term, the owner of the rights in the pre-existing work may not terminate use rights in existing derivative works unless Congress had assumed that the owner continued to hold the right to sue for infringement even after incorporation of the pre-existing work into the derivative work.

—c)(6)(A) "carves out an exception from the reversion of rights that takes place when an author exercises his right to termination

The Act, which almost completely revised existing copyright law, was the product of two decades of negotiation by representatives of creators and copyright-using industries, supervised by the Copyright Office and, to a lesser extent, by Congress.

The court finds that defining "commercial activity" as one carried on for a profit, and hence a "commercial purpose" as one that has the purpose of generating a profit, is consistent with the ordinary meaning of "commercial," which the court assumes Congress intended.

It is logical to assume that the same word has the same meaning when it is... used earlier in the same sentence

When in 1976, after more than 20 years of study, Congress adopted a comprehensive revision of the Copyright Act

The parties may negotiate a license which allows the third party to use the copyrighted work in a particular way in exchange for royalty payments.