Very good breakdown. I am a (mostly retired ) attorney and reached the same conclusions. Oddly as hybrid authors, we had registered our copyrights for most of our indie works and assumed the Big 5 publisher would register our trad pub titles per our contract. Turns out they prepared an application but it was never registered. Many of my friends in the same boat where their trad publisher did not register 🫠
And... here's where to go to submit a claim: www.AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com
Very good breakdown. I am a (mostly retired ) attorney and reached the same conclusions. Oddly as hybrid authors, we had registered our copyrights for most of our indie works and assumed the Big 5 publisher would register our trad pub titles per our contract. Turns out they prepared an application but it was never registered. Many of my friends in the same boat where their trad publisher did not register 🫠
The Authors Guild would probably like to hear from you about this if you're a member!