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  2. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Copyright renewal in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This law removed the requirement that a second term of copyright protection is contingent on a renewal registration. The effect was that any work copyrighted in the US in 1964 or after had a copyright term of 75 years, whether or not a formal copyright renewal was filed. There are some legal reasons for filing such renewal registrations.

  4. History of copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    State copyright law is not preempted by non-protected works. For example, ... 1962, would not expire before Dec. 31, 1976."); [27] ...

  5. Public domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under current copyright law, beginning in 2049, 1978 and beyond works by creators who died seven decades earlier will expire each year. [3] For example, if a creator were to die in 2002, their works' copyright would last through the end of 2072 and enter the public domain on January 1, 2073.

  6. History of copyright - Wikipedia

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    Prussia introduced a copyright law in 1837, ... by confirming that the copyright term (the length of time that a work is in copyright) did expire according to statute

  7. Copyright - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Copyright Act of 1976 - Wikipedia

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    Previous copyright law set the duration of copyright protection at 28 years with a possibility of a 28 year extension, for a total maximum term of 56 years. The 1976 Act, however, substantially increased the term of protection. Section 302 of the Act extended protection to "a term consisting of the life of the author and fifty years after the ...

  9. Copyright Term Extension Act - Wikipedia

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    For works published before January 1, 1978, the 1998 act extended the renewal term from 47 years to 67 years, granting a total of 95 years. This law effectively froze the advancement date of the public domain in the United States for works covered by the older fixed term copyright rules. Under this Act, works made in 1923 or afterwards that ...

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