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If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was, in fact, "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain. Under the 1976 Act, however, section 102 says that copyright protection extends to original works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression ...
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Case Citation Year Vote Classification Subject Matter Opinions Statute Interpreted Summary; New York Times Co. v. Tasini: 533 U.S. 483: 2001: 7–2: Substantive: Collective works
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The section "Registration & deposit" is a good summary of the R&D provisions of the 1976 Act. However, most of this article is about changes made by the 1976 Act, and the registration and deposit provisions are mostly unchanged between the 1909 Act and the 1976 Act. The only real differences touched on here are :
565 U.S. 302: 2012 Congress may retroactively restore copyright in works that have fallen into the public domain. The Constitution gives broad discretion to Congress to decide how best to promote the "progress of science and the useful arts" Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 133 S. Ct. 1351: 2013