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    Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection Act – extended...
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  • The copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain. In most of the world, this length of time...
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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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    his death in 1998. The United States Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, which extended the term of copyright by 20 years, was named in honor of Bono...
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    work's copyright term ends, the work passes into the public domain. The Berne Convention stipulates that the duration of the term for copyright protection...
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    Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1928, films released in 1928, and other works published in 1928, enter the public domain in...
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  • Eldred argued that this act and a previous extension of the copyright term in the 1970s had created a de facto "perpetual copyright on the installment plan"...
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  • Eldred v. Ashcroft (category Copyright term)
    States upholding the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA). The practical result of this was to prevent a number...
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    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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    seventy-five year term. Published works from 1922 entered on January 1, 1998. Later in 1998, Congress passed the Copyright Term Extension Act which further...
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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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    authorization. Due to the Copyright Term Extension Act of the United States (sometimes called the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" because of extensive lobbying...
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    Canada Should Implement the Copyright Term Extension Buried in Budget 2022 - Michael Geist". Retrieved 2022-04-12. "An Act to implement certain provisions...
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  • 1998, Disney's copyright on Pluto, set to expire in 2003, was extended by the passage of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Disney, along with...
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    In 1998, the length of a copyright in the United States was increased by 20 years under the Copyright Term Extension Act. This legislation was the subject...
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  • modern concept of copyright originated in Great Britain, in the year 1710, with the Statute of Anne. This Act prescribed a copyright term of fourteen years...
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    legislation passed along with the Copyright Term Extension Act in 1998. United States copyright law gives copyright owners the exclusive right to publicly...
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  • a challenge to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, also known pejoratively as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act."[failed verification][better source needed]...
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    changes in the Act included: Extension of the original copyright term from 14 years to 28 years, with an option to renew the copyright for another 14...
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    Eric Eldred (category Copyright activists)
    lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act but lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 with the lawyer Lawrence...
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    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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  • through the Copyright Act of 1976 to "Either 75 years or the life of the author plus 50 years" and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (also...
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    Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1927, films released in 1927, and other works published in 1927, entered the public domain in...
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  • heirs to DC Comics Current US copyright law (Title 17 United States Code) Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Copyright Act of 1976 Judge J. Addison Young...
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  • public domain tangos Copyright Term Extension Act LibriVox, an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks. Copyright collective Performance...
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    Public domain (redirect from Copyright-free)
    Domain Copyfraud Copyleft Copyright status of works by the federal government of the United States Copyright Term Extension Act Eldred v. Ashcroft Fair...
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    Copyright Act of 1976, and finally to 2023 by the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (also known pejoratively as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act")...
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  • Inc. The music was copyrighted 7 February 1917 and the copyright was renewed 29 December 1944. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act (1998), the sheet...
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  • were published in 1923 entered the public domain. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1928, films released in 1928, and other works...
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  • Openlaw (category Copyright law)
    Web, but legislation called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended copyright from 50 to 70 years after the author's death, cutting off its...
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