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This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: 17 U.S.C. 117, 2703(d) order, Access device, Anti-SLAPP statute, Anti-circumvention, Antitrust laws, Bankruptcy, Best edition, Best mode, CONTU Commission, Child luring, Communications Decency Act of 1996, Compilation, Content, Copies, Copyright, Copyright duration, Copyright notice, Copyright ownership, Copyright preemption, Copyright registration, Copyright restoration, Copyright transfer, Copyrightable subject matter, DMCA Exemptions to the Prohibition on Circumvention, Data Protection Act 1998, Data security breach, Data security laws, Derivative work, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital musical recording, Digital transmission, Dilution, Direct copyright infringement, Distribute, Electronic Communications Act 2000, Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988, Enablement, Enterprise, Ephemeral recording, Exceeds authorized access, Exclusive rights, Export control laws, Fair use, False endorsement, Famous marks, Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, Section 5 of the FTC Act, Trademark infringement, Use in commerce. Excerpt: Copyright Act of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541 (1976). The Copyright Act of 1976 is the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions. The Act spells out the basic rights of copyright holders, codified the doctrine of "fair use," and converted the term of copyrights from a fixed period requiring renewal to an extended period based on the date of the creator's death. It was signed into law on October 19, 1976 and went into effect on January 1, 1978. Before the 1976 Act, the last major revision to statutory copyright law in the United States occurred in 1909. In deliberating the 1976 Act, Congress noted that extensive technological advances had occurred since the adoption of the 1909 Copyright Act. Television, motion pictures, sound recordings, and radio...
