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"To make the notice meaningful rather than misleading", section 403 of the 1976 Act required that, when the copies consist " 'preponderantly of one or more works of the United States Government', the copyright notice (if any) identify those parts of the work in which copyright is claimed. A failure to meet this requirement would be treated as ...
Rhode Island General Law § 38-2-3 states that "all records maintained or kept on file by any public body, whether or not those records are required by any law or by any rule or regulation, shall be public records and every person or entity shall have the right to inspect and/or copy those records at such reasonable time as may be determined by the custodian thereof."
Until the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, the lack of a proper copyright notice would place an otherwise copyrightable work into the public domain, although for works published between January 1, 1978, and February 28, 1989, this could be prevented by registering the work with the Library of Congress within five years of ...
Consequently, potential users of copyrighted works, e.g., filmmakers or biographers, must assume that many works they might use are copyrighted. Where the planned use would not be otherwise permitted by law (for example, by fair use), they must themselves individually investigate the copyright status of each work they plan to use. With no ...
Failure to display copyright notice. [87] Original script may have been copyrighted. [87] March of the Wooden Soldiers: 1950: Gus Meins: Lippert Pictures: 1950: Failure to display copyright notice. [36] This is a later abridgement of Babes in Toyland (1934), which is still in copyright. Its public domain status remains unclear. [36] McLintock ...
The cherished works from 1927 losing their copyright protection include the film 'Metropolis,' a classic Laurel and Hardy short and the first Hardy Boys book.
This corresponds roughly to the term «public domain» in English. Norwegian copyright law makes a distinction between copyright and neighbouring rights. Only creative and artistic works are subject to copyright. Some other types of works are protected by so-called neighbouring rights." [177] Yes [178] Oman: Life + 70 years [180]
This extension applied to works that had been copyrighted between 1950 and 1977 and were thus in their first 28-year term of copyright protection. [1] The maximum term of copyright protection became 75 years instead of the 56 years of the 1909 law, and applied to works whose copyrights were renewed in 1978 or later.