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    The Register of Copyrights is the director of the United States Copyright Office within the Library of Congress, as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 701. The Office...
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    chain of title for copyrighted works. The Register of Copyrights heads the Copyright Office. Shira Perlmutter is the 14th and current Register, since...
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    misnomer. "Restored copyrights" include not only copyrights on works that have lapsed and are restored, but also new US copyrights on works that were never...
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    questions raised by these new forms of communication. Barbara Ringer, who later became US Register of Copyrights in 1973, began taking an active role...
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    Karyn Temple (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    13th United States Register of Copyrights, appointed to the position on March 27, 2019. Temple was Acting Register of Copyrights from October 21, 2016...
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    attribution. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial rights". This means that copyrights granted by the law of a certain...
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    Barbara Ringer (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    overhauled the 1909 Copyright Act. Ringer was also the first woman to serve as the Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office. During her...
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  • of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights, before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary". Copyright.gov...
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  • "Proposed Copyright Legislation". The Writer. XVIII (6): 87. June 1906. An Act to amend title 17, United States Code, entitled "Copyrights", Pub. L.Tooltip...
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    Shira Perlmutter (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    professor and the 14th Register of Copyrights. Perlmutter has given public lectures on copyright, stating that Americans desire copyright laws that make sense...
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    published with notice of copyright or registered in unpublished form in the years 1964 through 1977 automatically had their copyrights renewed for a second...
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    Comments of AAA (American Automobile Association)". Section 1201 of Title 17: A report of the Register of Copyrights – United States Copyright Office,...
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    Delaware Corp.; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Defendants-Appellees. No. 97-55947. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and...
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    Senate, for a term of ten years. The librarian of Congress also appoints and oversees the Register of Copyrights of the U.S. Copyright Office and has broad...
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    collections of facts that qualify as "databases", but that provision is not considered copyright. Copyright protection is automatic upon creation of the work...
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    the product's date. Unlike copyright extension legislation in the European Union, the Sonny Bono Act did not revive copyrights that had already expired...
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  • jurisdiction. Registrar of Copyrights may refer to: Register of Copyrights (United States of America) Registrar of Copyrights (India) This disambiguation...
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    Maria Strong (attorney) (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    Register of Copyrights and Director of Policy and International Affairs of the United States Copyright Office. Maria Strong has served in a number of...
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    Thorvald Solberg (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    1949) was the first Register of Copyrights (1897–1930) in the United States Copyright Office. He was a noted authority on copyright and played an instrumental...
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  • from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018. Register of Copyrights (April 2019). "Authors, Attribution, and Integrity: Examining Moral...
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    Library of Congress, through both the librarian of Congress and the register of copyrights, is responsible for authorizing exceptions to Section 1201 of Title...
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    Maria Pallante (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    who previously served as the 12th United States Register of Copyrights. She was appointed Acting Register effective January 1, 2011, succeeding Marybeth...
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    Marybeth Peters (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    United States Register of Copyrights from August 7, 1994, to December 31, 2010. Prior to serving as register, Peters held the positions of Policy Planning...
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    Happy Birthday to You (category Copyright infringement)
    claiming that Summy Company legally registered the copyright for the song, as well as the later renewal of these copyrights. Summy Company became the Summy-Birchard...
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  • Kent Press. p. 70. ISBN 9780962710674. Statement of Marybeth Peters, United States Register of Copyrights, before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet...
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  • paper on the impact of the copyright extension on the British Copyright Act of 1814 that "longer copyrights raise the costs of accessing intellectual assets...
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    William Lincoln Brown (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    William Lincoln Brown (1862–1940) was the second Register of Copyrights (1934–36) in the United States Copyright Office. He presided over the office during...
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    Sam Bass Warner (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    fourth Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office. Born Sam Perkins Fiske in Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 1889, he was the first son of Asian...
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    Ralph Oman (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    1940 in Huntington, New York) is an American lawyer and former Register of Copyrights. He is currently the Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball and Kreiger Professorial...
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    speech with the Register of Copyrights. But if the performance constituted only "limited publication", King retained common law copyright. This led to a...
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