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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Act as follows: The principal changes which the Act will effect upon the existing law may be briefly summarised — Extension of the term of copyright to...
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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 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 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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    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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    citation in Eldred v. Ashcroft, and remains unpublished under the Copyright Term Extension Act. Ozma was first portrayed by Blanche Deyo in the 1905 musical...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • copyright to Action Comics #1 was in its renewal term on October 27, 1998 (the date the Copyright Term Extension Act became effective), its copyright...
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  • published in 1974 will enter the public domain in 2025. Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books and other works published in 1929 and films released in...
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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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  • 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...
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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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  • 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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    Machine. Catalog of Copyright Entries, January–June 1971, U.S. Copyright Office. Retrieved November 8, 2010. The Copyright Term Extension Act of 1995: Hearing...
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  • 2011/77/EU on the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights amended Directive 2006/116/EC and extended copyright terms of recordings...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998
    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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