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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. These ...
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Laws may make some types of works and inventions ineligible for monopoly; such works immediately enter the public domain upon publication. Many kinds of mental creations, such as publicized baseball statistics, are never covered by copyright. However, any special layout of baseball statistics, or the like, would be covered by copyright law.
In French copyright law, article 23 of the March 11, 1957 Act granted a 50-year exploitation right term for posthumous works, vested in the author's successors if the work was made available to the public during the 50 years following the year of his death, and vested in the owner of the work after that period. [3]
Literary; dramatic, musical and; artistic works; lifetime of the author + sixty years [14] from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the author dies.
The 1957 authors' rights laws were substantially modified by Act No. 85-660 of July 3, 1985, which came into force on January 1, 1986. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Among other changes, this act introduced various neighbouring rights and increased the length of intellectual property protection for musical compositions to life of the author plus 70 years.
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