(2) Where an author is dead, his or her termination interest is
owned, and may be exercised, by his widow or her widower and his or
her children or grandchildren as follows:
(A) the widow or widower owns the author's entire termination
interest unless there are any surviving children or grandchildren of
the author, in which case the widow or widower owns one-half of
the author's interest;
(B) the author's surviving children, and the surviving children
of any dead child of the author, own the author's entire
termination interest unless there is a widow or widower, in which
case the ownership of one-half of the author's interest is divided
among them;
(C) the rights of the author's children and grandchildren are in
all cases divided among them and exercised on a per stirpes basis
according to the number of such author's children represented; the
share of the children of a dead child in a termination interest can
be exercised only by the action of a majority of them.
(3) Termination of the grant may be effected at any time during a
period of five years beginning at the end of thirty-five years from
the date of publication of the work under the grant or at the end of
forty years from the date of execution of the grant, whichever term
ends earlier.
(4) The termination shall be effected by serving an advance notice
in writing, signed by the number and proportion of owners of
termination interests required under clauses (1) and (2) of this
subsection, or by their duly authorized agents, upon the grantee or the
grantee's successor in title.
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