The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power...

power to create copyright law (and patent law) under Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, known as the Copyright Clause. Under the Copyright Clause, Congress has...

the 3-clause version, which is revised from the original 4-clause version. In all BSD licenses as following, <year> is the year of the copyright. As published...

Instead, the plaintiffs extended their argument on the copyright clause to note that the clause requires Congress to "promote the Progress of Science and...

appears in some countries' copyright laws. The Copyright Clause of the United States, Constitution (1787) authorized copyright legislation: "To promote...

clause 8. This clause is understood to grant Congress the power to enact copyright laws. The Copyright Clause forms the basis for both U.S. copyright...

arts by granting copyrights and patents of limited duration. Section eight, clause eight of Article One, known as the Copyright Clause, is the only instance...

copyright law. In the United States Constitution, the Copyright Clause in Article 1, Section 8 endows Congress with the power to create a copyright system...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...

language of the United States Constitution's Copyright Clause does not preclude the extension of copyright protections to works previously in the public...

dealt with copyright and the public domain. It held that the "limited time" language of the United States Constitution's Copyright Clause does not preclude...

Carolina introduced proposals for the Copyright Clause during the Constitutional Convention 1787. The Copyright Clause authorized Congress "to promote the...

under article I, section 8, clause 8 of the United States Constitution to protect copyrights, and so § 4952 of the Copyright Act of 1865, which explicitly...

contains the only reference to the Copyright Clause in The Federalist Papers. In the brief discussion of the Clause, Madison states that "the utility of...

enforce the copyright in all other works first produced in the performance of a contract. However, if a contract includes Alternate IV of the clause, the Contracting...

allow Congress the power to grant copyright for a limited time. These proposals are the origin of the Copyright Clause in the United States Constitution...

United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records...

the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, often called the "Copyright Clause". The Naïve Philosopher is a teacher of The School of...

Universal Copyright Convention (UCC) is an international instrument which was drawn up in 1952 under the auspices of UNESCO. The UCC was adopted in Geneva...

Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs...

The Manufacturing clause is a clause contained in copyright legislation requiring that as a condition of obtaining copyright, all copies of a work must...

meaning of [the Copyright Clause]." Congress passed the Trade Mark Act of 1881 to reintroduce trademarks, justified by the Commerce Clause instead. Patry...

issues of concern to copyright in various jurisdictions. Some of these cases are leading English cases as the law of copyright in various Commonwealth...

photographs were "writings" within the meaning of the Copyright Clause and cited Nimmer on Copyright, which stated that there "appear to be at least two...

collections of facts are outside of Congressional authority under the Copyright Clause (Article I, § 8, cl. 8) of the United States Constitution, therefore...

franchise). In the United States, the Copyright Clause of the Constitution of the United States (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8) provides the Congress with the...

federal trademarks by pointing to the Copyright Clause in the Constitution. The Trade Mark Act of 1870 (within the Copyright Act of 1870) and the Trade Mark...

regime. This 1870 statute was purported to be an exercise of Congress' Copyright Clause powers, however, the Supreme Court struck down the 1870 statute in...

been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore...

non-discrimination clause of article 7 of the EC treaty. It also clarified that the non-discrimination clause was indeed applicable to copyright. The court stated...