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	IViR - Legislation - Netherlands - Copyright Act 1912
		Copyright is the exclusive right of the author of a literary, scientific or artistic work or his successors in title to communicate that work to the public and to reproduce it, subject to the limitations laid down by law.
		Copyright shall entitle the rightholder to claim as his property any goods that are not filed in the public records and which have been communicated to the public in violation of copyright or are unauthorised reproductions, or to apply for them to be destroyed or rendered useless.
		Copyright in works for which the duration of copyright is not calculated in accordance with article 37 and which have not been lawfully communicated to the public within 70 years from their creation shall expire.
	www.ivir.nl /legislation/nl/copyrightact.html (8540 words)

	The Copyright Act of 1909
		Subsisting copyrights originally registered in the Patent Office prior to July 1, 1940, under section 3 of the act of June 18, 1874, shall be subject to renewal in behalf of the proprietor upon application made to the Register of Copyrights within one year prior to the expiration of the original term of twenty-eight years.
		Copyright secured under this title or previous copyright laws of the United States may be assigned, granted, or mortgaged by an instrument in writing signed by the proprietor of the copyright, or may be bequeathed by will.
		The seal used in the copyright office on July 1, 1909, shall be the seal of the copyright office, and by it all papers issued from the copyright office requiring authentication shall be authenticated.
	www.kasunic.com /1909_act.htm (3196 words)

	Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)
		Acts of Parliament printed from this website are printed under the superintendence and authority of the Controller of HMSO being the Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament.
		It should be noted that the right to reproduce the text of Acts of Parliament does not extend to the Queen's Printer imprints which should be removed from any copies of the Act which are issued or made available to the public.
		Anonymous or pseudonymous works: acts permitted on assumptions as to expiry of copyright or death of author.
	www.opsi.gov.uk /acts/acts1988/Ukpga_19880048_en_1.htm (1601 words)

	Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States copyright law.
		The act criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.
		The "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act" (INDUCE) Act
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DMCA (635 words)

	COPYRIGHT ACT 1968
		Acts done in relation to substantial part of work or other subject-matter deemed to be done in relation to the whole 15.
		Copyright to subsist in joint works without regard to any author who is an unqualified person 83.
		Copyright in certain recordings not infringed by causing recordings to be heard in public or broadcast 106.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/index.html (4390 words)

	Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In response, the DMCA provides a legal backup for copyright protection by making it illegal to manufacture, import, distribute or provide products or services that are primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing technological measures, such as encryption, scrambling or other methods, used by copyright owners to protect their works.
		Copyright management information can be linked to or travel with works in a networked environment to facilitate detection of unauthorized uses, promote the payment of royalties, and provide similar benefits to copyright owners.
		The causes of action for violation of the anti-circumvention and copyright management information provisions of the DMCA are in addition to any cause of action that might lie for copyright infringement, including infringement actions brought under theories of contributory infringement or vicarious liability.
	www.nmpa.org /nmpa/wipofinal.html (1544 words)

	US Copyright Act of 1976 - CHAPTER 1
		Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.
		Copyright owners and public broadcasting entities shall negotiate and agree upon the terms and rates of royalty payments and the proportionate division of fees paid among various copyright owners, and may designate common agents to negotiate, agree to, pay, or receive payments.
		The Copyright Royalty Tribunal shall also establish requirements by which copyright owners may receive reasonable notice of the use of their works under this section, and under which records of such use shall be kept by public broadcasting entities.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/law/CopyrightActof1976/Chap1.html (7753 words)

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		The law is a complete revision of the current Section 110(2) of the U.S. Copyright Act, and one of its fundamental objectives is to strike a balance between protecting copyrighted works, while permitting educators to use those materials in distance education.
		The TEACH Act is a clear signal that Congress recognizes the importance of distance education, the significance of digital media, and the need to resolve copyright clashes.
		The primary benefit of the TEACH Act for educators is its repeal of the earlier version of Section 110(2), which was drafted principally in the context of closed-circuit television.
	www.copyright.iupui.edu /teach_summary.htm (3810 words)

	MegaLaw - Copyright Act
		Under the general scheme of the bill, statutory copyright protection is secured automatically when a work is created, and is not lost when the work is published, even if the copyright notice is omitted entirely.
		However, if the copyright owner authorized publication only on the express condition that all copies or phonorecords bear a prescribed notice, the provisions of section 401 or 402 and of section 405 would not apply since the publication itself would not be authorized.
		On the other hand, where the infringing enterprise is one running over a period of time, the copyright owner would be able to seek an injunction against continuation of the infringement, and to obtain full monetary recovery for all infringing acts committed after he had served notice of registration.
	www.megalaw.com /top/copyright/17usc405.php (1395 words)

	Copyright FAQ
		Copyright is a complex area and difficult to summarise but there are a number of excellent guides to copyright which explain relevant legislation for a general reader.
		The 1988 Act states that fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purposes of research or private study, criticism or review, or for the purpose of reporting current events, does not infringe any copyright in the work, or the typographic arrangement of a published edition.
		If the gallery owns the copyright in the painting and the photograph, and permission was only granted for use of the photo within the PhD thesis (giving limited dissemination), then it would be an infringement of the copyright in the photo and the original painting to disseminate the thesis beyond the original permission given.
	ahds.ac.uk /copyrightfaq.htm (7170 words)

	LII: Law about...Copyright
		The U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 - 810, is Federal legislation enacted by Congress under its Constitutional grant of authority to protect the writings of authors.
		To be covered by copyright a work must be original and in a concrete "medium of expression." See § 102 of the act.
		The federal agency charged with administering the act is the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /topics/copyright.html (325 words)

	Australian Copyright Council's Online Information Centre — Australian Copyright Council
		The Australian Copyright Council is assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
		Copyright in Australia: get some copyright basics (there is no copyright registration in Australia), see our information sheets (they answer many FAQs about Copyright Laws and legislation).
		Copyright problems: information on this site covers a large range of copyright issues including how to protect your copyright, assigning and licensing rights, and copyright infringement.
	www.copyright.org.au (333 words)

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		Moreover, removing a copyright notice or removing the names of authors from any work also could be a violation if the removal concealed or allowed an infringement of copyright to that work.
		Fundamentally, these provisions allow copyright owners to impose technological controls and other restrictions on the use of their works, and in the process, to constrain the use of materials for research and teaching in a manner more restrictive than may be established under existing copyright law.
		The potential magnitude of the Copyright Office study is enormous, because "distance education" today encompasses multiple forms of transmission, from television to Websites, and includes the vast range of copyrighted materials, from text to software, that enhance the educational experience.
	www.copyright.iupui.edu /dmcamemo.html (2182 words)

	Copyright, Act (Consolidation), 1969 (1994), No. III (No. LXXII) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Copyright protection shall extend to a work first disclosed abroad only if the author is a Hungarian national or if protection is afforded to the author under international conventions or by reciprocity.
		(2) Copyright protection shall be afforded, without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work, with respect to the alteration, adaptation or translation of the work of another person if the work thus obtained has an individual and original character.
		The share of the royalties due to the authors and those entitled under copyright shall be distributed by the Hungarian Bureau for the Protection of Authors' Rights according to the Rules approved by the Minister for Culture and Education.
	www.wipo.int /clea/docs_new/en/hu/hu001en.html (5574 words)

	CLA: Resources - Copyright Information
		Discussion Paper on the Implementation of the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty Addresses amendments "necessary to the Canadian Copyright Act in order to comply with the WIPO Performances And Phonograms Treaty." Prepared by Johanne Daniel and Lesley Ellen Harris for Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada.
		It describes the rights copyright provides to creators and the limitations that are placed on those rights for the benefit of libraries and library patrons.
		This printed guide, which includes the complete text of the Copyright Act and regulations pertaining to book importation and library exceptions, will be made available freely to all CLA members in January 2000.
	www.cla.ca /resources/copyright.htm (2418 words)

	SICE - IP/National Legislation - Barbados, Copyright Law, Part 1
		Acts done to recording or performance for purposes of instruction, etc.
		This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1998.
		References in this Act to the time at which, or the period during which, a work was made are references to the time or period at or during which it was first written down, recorded or expressed in some other material form.
	www.sice.oas.org /int_prop/nat_leg/Barbados/Ca98-1e.asp (2538 words)

	COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - List of Sections
		Acts done in relation to substantial part of work or other subject-matter deemed to be done in relation to the whole
		Copyright to subsist in joint works without regard to any author who is an unqualified person
		Copyright in certain recordings not infringed by causing recordings to be heard in public or broadcast
	scaleplus.law.gov.au /html/pasteact/0/244/top.htm (2267 words)

	Joint Study of Section 1201(g) of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act
		Second, the DMCA seeks to encourage legitimate research activities (some involving acts of circumvention of such technological measures) that will advance the state of the art in encryption technology, the foundation on which these measures are based and on which electronic commerce is supported.
		Given the importance of encryption technology in protecting copyrighted works and promoting electronic commerce generally, each of the three committees to which the bill was referred considered the impact its actions would have on research efforts.
		In so doing, it was argued that an environment would be fostered in which copyright owners could trust that their creative contributions would be adequately protected and that any research would be truly directed at studying the flaws and vulnerabilities of encryption technology for the benefit and protection of the copyright owner.
	www.ntia.doc.gov /reports/dmca (3915 words)

	Copyright - Wex
		The U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 - 810, is Federal legislation enacted by Congress under its Constitutional grant of authority to protect the writings ofauthors.
		To be covered by copyright a work must be originaland in a concrete "medium of expression." See § 102 of the act.
		The federal agency charged with administering the act is the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/copyright.html (385 words)

	The TEACH Act
		Copyright law provides educators with a separate set of rights in addition to fair use, to display (show) and perform (show or play) others' works in the classroom.
		The TEACH Act expands the scope of educators' rights to perform and display works and to make the copies integral to such performances and displays for digital distance education, making the rights closer to those we have in face-to-face teaching.
		The TEACH Act authorizes us to digitize works for use in digital distance education, but only to the extent we are authorized to use those works in Section 110(2), and so long as they are not available digitally in a format free from technological protection.
	www.utsystem.edu /ogc/intellectualproperty/teachact.htm (1772 words)

	ALA \| Distance Education and the TEACH Act
		On November 2nd, 2002, the "Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act" (the TEACH Act), part of the larger Justice Reauthorization legislation (H.R. 2215), was signed into law by President Bush.
		Because the law permits uses of only certain copyrighted materials, institutions will fell compelled to assure that faculty are apprised of the limits, and some colleges and universities will struggle with whether to monitor the content of the educational programming.
		Performances or displays given by means of copies "not lawfully made and acquired" under the U.S. Copyright Act, if the educational institution "knew or had reason to believe" that they were not lawfully made and acquired.
	www.ala.org /Template.cfm?Section=distanceed&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=25939 (4087 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Sprigman: The Mouse That Ate The Public Domain
		Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse, who made his screen debut in the 1928 cartoon short "Steamboat Willie," was due to expire in 2003, and Disney's rights to Pluto, Goofy and Donald Duck were to expire a few years later.
		John Deere Co., where it held that the "qualified authority" that the Copyright Clause grants "is limited to the promotion of advances in [science and] the 'useful arts'." In contrast, the copyright grant is not itself the enumerated power; it is merely the instrument through which progress may be realized.
		Our copyright regime is almost as old as our Constitution, and the creation of exclusive rights for limited periods is as sensible an approach now as it was at the Founding.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /commentary/20020305_sprigman.html (2088 words)

	The Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Overview
		As was the case with the 'No Electronic Theft' Act (1997), the bill was originally supported by the software and entertainment industries, and opposed by scientists, librarians, and academics.
		The U.S. Copyright Office’s Final Rule on Exemptions to the Anti-Circumvention Provisions of the Act – October 2000
		The WIPO Copyright Treaty - Geneva - December 2-20, 1996
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /iclp/dmca1.htm (373 words)

	Copyright Act - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		The Copyright Act gives the right to any person to copy, redistribute, or otherwise mass produce the intellectual and material property of others.
		This Act is also heavily enforced by Clinjas.
		However it is horribly horribly wrong to copy something, change it, and then call it your own and try to profit off of it.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Copyright_Act (1433 words)

	THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Transmission of copyright in manuscript by testamentary disposition
		Register of Copyrights to be prima facie evidence of particulars entered therein
		Certain acts not to be infringement of copyright
	www.naukri.com /lls/copyright/cpwrt.htm (401 words)

	EFF:
		Since they were enacted in 1998, the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") have not been used as Congress envisioned.
		Congress meant to stop copyright pirates from defeating DRM restrictions (aka content or copy protections) added to copyrighted works and to ban the "fl box" devices intended for that purpose.
		A description of some of the very real problems that have already appeared because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
	www.eff.org /IP/DMCA (443 words)

	Opposing Copyright Extension, Protecting The Public Domain
		Ashcroft (May 24, 2005), the DC Circuit has rejected a challenge to section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which restores copyrights on foreign works that had expired due to a failure to follow formalities (like notice or renewal) previously required by US law.
		Section 514 of the URAA created section 104A of the Copyright Act, which allows the revival of copyrights relating to foreign works where those copyrights had expired due to failure to follow formalities previously required by U.S. law (such as publication with a copyright notice or filing a renewal registration).
		Representative Zoe Lofgren has again introduced the Public Domain Enhancement Act, H.R. requiring the payment of $1 fifty years after publication and every ten years thereafter to maintain the copyright until the end of the current (overly long) term.
	homepages.law.asu.edu /~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension (1092 words)

	Association of Research Libraries :: Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies
		Updating copyright and intellectual property laws to meet the challenges of the networked environment has been a key focus for Congress, the courts, and state legislatures for several years.
		The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, peer-to-peer file sharing and digital rights management, and legislation to create additional protections for databases have dominated the agenda.
		Debate and consideration of a large number of copyright and intellectual property bills and court cases has occupied ARL staff this year.
	www.arl.org /info/frn/copy/dmca.html (149 words)

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