• Thumbnail for Copyright Act of 1976
    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...
    24 KB (2,840 words) - 21:03, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copyright Term Extension Act
    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...
    45 KB (5,290 words) - 17:23, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copyright Act of 1909
    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 The 1909 Act was repealed and superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976, which went into...
    12 KB (1,209 words) - 16:24, 25 April 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (194 words) - 22:45, 16 July 2023
  • as part of that person's official duties". Under section 105 of the Copyright Act of 1976, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection...
    27 KB (3,496 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2024
  • 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...
    95 KB (11,300 words) - 08:01, 1 May 2024
  • public domain. United States copyright law was last generally revised by the Copyright Act of 1976, codified in Title 17 of the United States Code. The...
    83 KB (10,044 words) - 20:37, 1 April 2024
  • 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...
    46 KB (5,862 words) - 14:36, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States Copyright Office
    the provisions of the copyright law. The Office also records documents related to copyright ownership. However, the Copyright Act of 1976 made registration...
    14 KB (1,524 words) - 22:38, 27 February 2024
  • Geneva Phonograms Convention in 17 U.S.C. § 402, the codification of the Copyright Act of 1976. The letter P in ℗ stands for phonogram, the legal term used...
    8 KB (1,005 words) - 04:35, 22 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Copyright
    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...
    91 KB (10,998 words) - 04:20, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copyright Renewal Act of 1992
    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...
    12 KB (1,316 words) - 07:20, 1 February 2024
  • printed copy of the local coat-of-arms to indicate their authenticity. A copyright notice was first required in the U.S. by the Copyright Act of 1802. It...
    14 KB (1,505 words) - 03:41, 29 April 2024
  • 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 not apply...
    19 KB (2,437 words) - 15:03, 28 January 2024
  • 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...
    19 KB (1,834 words) - 10:09, 21 November 2023
  • 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...
    19 KB (2,216 words) - 01:29, 15 February 2024
  • 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...
    65 KB (7,513 words) - 17:52, 5 April 2024
  • tangible medium of expression. According to section 412 of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 (17 U.S.C. 408), registration of a work with the Copyright Office is...
    5 KB (559 words) - 15:33, 20 February 2024
  • 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...
    25 KB (3,653 words) - 15:50, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Public domain in the United States
    and dictated that copyrights expire at the end of the seventy-fifth year rather than from moment of publication. The 1976 Copyright Act also created new...
    41 KB (5,135 words) - 20:03, 4 May 2024
  • account of World War II Copyright Act of 1976, which completely restated Title 17, notably 17 U.S.C. 104(b)(6) Uruguay Round Agreements Act (Pub. L.Tooltip...
    16 KB (1,025 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2024
  • 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...
    25 KB (3,305 words) - 17:50, 16 February 2024
  • which the screenplay was adapted, had separate copyrights properly renewed. The US Copyright Act of 1976 modified these provisions so that the second,...
    7 KB (873 words) - 22:20, 3 February 2024
  • Canada, software is protected as a literary work under the Copyright Act of Canada. Copyright is acquired automatically when an original work is generated;...
    22 KB (2,716 words) - 04:47, 16 August 2023
  • heirs took back their rights using the termination provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 and accepted a new purchase offer from Warner. Later in 2001...
    53 KB (7,427 words) - 08:57, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victor Willis
    Southern District of California ruled that under the provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, Willis could terminate his copyright transfers to Scorpio...
    10 KB (1,124 words) - 19:21, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Public domain
    without an explicit copyright notice. With the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 (and the earlier Copyright Act of 1976, which went into effect...
    52 KB (5,875 words) - 02:10, 12 April 2024
  • uses of texts. CCC was founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization in response to negotiations preceding the United States Copyright Act of 1976. The...
    9 KB (969 words) - 23:55, 30 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Publication
    important in copyright legislation. An author of a work generally is the initial owner of the copyright on the work. One of the copyrights granted to the...
    14 KB (1,650 words) - 04:42, 4 March 2024
  • 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...
    6 KB (627 words) - 14:44, 23 January 2024