This copyright jump scare is the termination provision in the 1976 Copyright Act that allows creators who transferred their copyright rights to someone else to reclaim those rights, even if they were assigned permanently. This is how Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller successfully reclaimed his rights to the original script! I talked more about that in an episode a couple of years ago.
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