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The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". [1][2] With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly.
The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute.
Property and Property law. v. t. e. A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. [1][2][3][4][5] The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form.
Instead it passed a resolution encouraging the States to "secure to the authors or publishers of any new book not hitherto printed ... the copy right of such books for a certain time not less than fourteen years from the first publication; and to secure to the said authors, if they shall survive the term first mentioned, ... the copy right of ...
Berne Convention. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, was an international assembly held in 1886 in the Swiss city of Berne by ten European countries with the goal of agreeing on a set of legal principles for the protection of original work.
Parliamentary copyright of a literary, musical, or dramatic work subsists until 50 years after the making of the work. Crown copyright of published literary, dramatic, or musical works expires 50 years after publication. Crown copyright of unpublished works expires the later of 125 years from creation or 31 December 2039.
[4] [6] Three states had already enacted copyright statutes in 1783 prior to the Continental Congress resolution, [4] and in the subsequent three years all of the remaining states except Delaware passed a copyright statute. [7] Seven of the states followed the Statute of Anne and the Continental Congress' resolution by providing two fourteen ...
Artists' books are books or book-like objects over the final appearance of which an artist has had a high degree of control; where the book is intended as a work of art in itself. — Stephen Bury[3] Artists' books are made for a variety of reasons. An artist book is generally interactive, portable, movable and easily shared.