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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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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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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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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The Copyright Act 1968 The Copyright Act of Canada Copyright Act, 2005. The Copyright Ordinance 1997 The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 The Copyright Act 1969...
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Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form...
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The Copyright Act 1957 as amended governs the subject of copyright law in India. The Act is applicable from 21 January 1958. The history of copyright law...
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authenticity. A copyright notice was first required in the U.S. by the Copyright Act of 1802. It was lengthy: "Entered according to act of Congress, in...
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1929, 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...
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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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The Copyright Act (French: Loi sur le droit d’auteur) is the federal statute governing copyright law in Canada. It is jointly administered by the Department...
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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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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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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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Patent Act, Copyright Act, Trademark Act, Design Act and Unfair Competition Prevention Act are included there. Reliable information on Japanese copyright law...
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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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The Copyright Act of 1909 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 60–349, 35 Stat. 1075, enacted March 4, 1909) was a landmark statute in United States...
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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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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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The Copyright Act is the legal framework that protects the use of an individual's work once the idea has been physically expressed. It is a form of intellectual...
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extensive copyright laws in the United States. The first federal copyright law, the Copyright Act of 1790, was enacted on May 31, 1790, and covered only books...
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International Copyright Act of 1891 (26 Stat. 1106, March 3, 1891) is the first U.S. congressional act that extended limited protection to foreign copyright holders...
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Moral rights (redirect from Moral rights (copyright))
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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Contributory copyright infringement is a way of imposing secondary liability for infringement of a copyright. It is a means by which a person may be held...
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The Copyright Modernization Act (French: Loi sur la modernisation du droit d’auteur), also known as Bill C-11, was introduced in the House of Commons...
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An Act to amend the Copyright Act may refer to one of several Canadian legislative acts: An Act to amend the Copyright Act (38th Canadian Parliament,...
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United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...
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Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...
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philosophy are quite common in the philosophy of copyright, where debates about jurisprudential reasoning tend to act as proxies for more substantial disagreements...
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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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