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    The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several...
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    extended copyright terms in the United States in 1998. It is one of several acts extending the terms of copyright. Following the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright...
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  • Kingdom The Copyright Act of 1790 The Copyright Act of 1831 The Copyright Act of 1870 The Copyright Act of 1909 The Copyright Act of 1976 The International...
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  • The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound...
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  • Thumbnail for Copyright Act 1911
    The Copyright Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 46), also known as the Imperial Copyright Act 1911, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) which...
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    States statutory copyright law. It went into effect on July 1, 1909. The 1909 Act was repealed and superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976, which went into...
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  • Copyright Act of 1976, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain. This act only...
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  • Thumbnail for Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
    The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received royal assent...
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  • Thumbnail for Digital Millennium Copyright Act
    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...
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    provisions of the copyright law. The Office also records documents related to copyright ownership. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 made registration...
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  • are in the public domain. United States copyright law was last generally revised by the Copyright Act of 1976, codified in Title 17 of the United States...
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  • established as federal law with the Copyright Act of 1790. This act was updated many times, including a major revision in 1976. The British Statute of Anne did...
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  • its copyright law as part of its adherence to the Geneva Phonograms Convention in 17 U.S.C. § 402, the codification of the Copyright Act of 1976. The...
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  • Thumbnail for Copyright Act of 1790
    The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation...
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    works. The most recent major overhaul of copyright in the US, the 1976 Copyright Act, extended federal copyright to works as soon as they are created and...
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  • Thumbnail for Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
    The Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act (OCILLA) is United States federal law that creates a conditional 'safe harbor' for online service...
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  • artistic works under Australian law. The scope of copyright in Australia is defined in the Copyright Act 1968 (as amended), which applies the national law...
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    registration with the U.S. Copyright Office. It amended the Copyright Act of 1976. Under the 1909 copyright, works copyrighted in the United States before...
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    to remain under copyright protection in the United States. The 1971 Sound Recordings Act, effective 1972, and the 1976 Copyright Act, effective 1978,...
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    Anne, also known as the Copyright Act 1709 or the Copyright Act 1710 (cited either as 8 Ann. c. 21 or as 8 Ann. c. 19), was an act of the Parliament of Great...
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  • The Copyright Act of 1976 is the copyright law currently in force in the U.S. While this Act continued to provide for criminal remedies to copyright infringement...
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  • copyright would be independent in the three aspects. The requirement for originality was incorporated in the statute only in the Copyright Act, 1976 and...
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  • Canada, software is protected as a literary work under the Copyright Act of Canada. Copyright is acquired automatically when an original work is generated;...
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  • copyright protection to include all "writings of an author". Although architectural drawings were not expressly included in the 1909 Act, copyright protection...
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  • liable for copyright infringement even though he or she did not directly engage in the infringing activity. In the United States, the Copyright Act does not...
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  • Thumbnail for Family Entertainment and Copyright Act
    Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, Pub. L. 109–9, 119 Stat. 218 (April 27, 2005), is a federal legislative act regarding copyright that became law in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988
    The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 is a copyright act that came into force in the United States on March 1, 1989, making it a party to the...
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  • Perpetual copyright, also known as indefinite copyright, is copyright that lasts indefinitely. Perpetual copyright arises either when a copyright has no...
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    in 1928.: 37  Canada recognizes moral rights (droits moraux) in its Copyright Act (Loi sur le droit d'auteur). The United States became a signatory to...
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  • Thumbnail for Copyright Act 1842
    The Copyright Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 45) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, which received royal assent on 1 July 1842 and was repealed...
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