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| The Copyright Act of 1976 | ||
| The 1909 Copyright Act as amended | ||
| The Copyright Act of 1790 | ||
| Copyright Office Regulations | ||
| Copyright Registration Procedures | ||
| Copyright Office Records | ||
| Compendium II Copyright Office Practices | ||
| Copyright &Fair Use Site (Stanford University) | ||
| Copyright Society of the U.S.A. | ||
| Copyright Law
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| Copyright Information Page (University of Michigan) | ||||||
| Copyright Resources Online (Yale University) | ||||||
| The Copyright Website | ||||||
| Peter Hirtle's Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States | ||||||
| Professor Laura Gasaway's Chart: When Works Pass Into the Public Domain | ||||||
| Professor Laura Gasaway's Chart: Comparison of section 110(1) and (2) before and after the TEACH Act | ||||||
| The Institute for Learning Technologies Guide to Copyright (Columbia University) | ||||||
| Intellectual Property Section (American Bar Association) | ||||||
| Harvard's Copyright's Commons | ||||||
| Timeline: A History of Copyright in the U.S. (Association of Research Libraries) | ||||||
| White Paper Report on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure, 1995 | ||||||
| World Intellectual Property Organization
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| Copyright Office Summary of the DMCA (PDF) | ||||||
| House Committee on the Judiciary hearing schedule | ||||||
| Senate Committee on the Judiciary | ||||||
| House Committee on Energy and Commerce | ||||||
| Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation | ||||||
| Senate Judiciary Committee's site on Protecting Creative Works in the Digital Age | ||||||
| The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Justice Department | ||||||
| Supreme Court Center | ||||||
| The Internet Archive | ||||||
| The Digital Dilemma | ||||||
| The Electronic Frontier Foundation's IP Archives | ||||||
| The CONTU Final Report | ||||||
| William Patry's Copyright Law and Practice | ||||||
| William Patry's Copyright Blog | ||||||
| Edward Samuels' excellent book: The Illustrated History of Copyright | ||||||
| Columbia Law Library's Music Copyright Infringement Online Archive | ||||||
| Michael Lesk's online Search for renewal records for books from 1923-1963 | ||||||
| Project Gutenberg's online renewal records | ||||||
| The Catalog of Copyright Entries scanned by Carnegie Mellon | ||||||
| Heinonline's complete Federal Register archive |
COPYRIGHT OFFICE REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS
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The Orphan Works Report (2006) |
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Webcasting Rates (2002) |
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Section 104 Report and Executive Summary (2001) |
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Project Looking Forward Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World (1998) |
NEW AND PENDING COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION
Proposed Legislation
2006
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Section 115 Reform Act of 2006 | 6/8/2006 | ||
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Orphan Works Act of 2006 | 5/22/2006 | ||
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Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006 | 5/11/2006 | ||
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Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2006 | 4/25/2006 | ||
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Expressing the sense of Congress that institutions of higher education should adopt policies and educational programs on their campuses to help deter and eliminate illicit copyright... | 4/7/2006 | ||
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Expressing the sense of Congress that United States intellectual property rights must be protected globally | 4/5/2006 | ||
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Expressing the sense of Congress that United States intellectual property rights must be protected globally | 4/5/2006 | ||
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To amend title 17, United States Code, to provide protection for fashion design | 3/30/2006 | ||
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Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of 2006 |
2005
| H.R. 4569 Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005 (12/16/2005) |
| H.R. 4536 Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2005 (12/14/2005) |
| S. 1785 Vessel Hull Design Protection Amendments of 2005 (9/28/2005) |
| S. 1095 Protecting American Goods and Services Act of 2005 (5/20/2005) |
| H.R. 2408 Public Domain Enhancement Act (5/17/2005) |
| H.R. 1201 Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2005 (3/9/2005) |
| H.R. 1037 Technical corrections relating to Statutory License for Satellite Carriers (3/2/2005) |
| H.R. 1036 Technical corrections relating to copyright royalty judges (3/2/2005) |
| H.R. 962 ...to allow faculty members at Department of Defense service academies... to secure copyrights for certain scholarly works... (2/17/2005) |
| S. 167 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (1/25/2005) |
| H.R. 357 Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (1/25/2005) |
| H.R. 24 Preservation and Restoration of Orphan Works for Use in Scholarship and Education (PRO-USE) Act of 2005 (1/4/2005) |
2004
| H.RES. 576 Urging the Government of the People's Republic of China to improve its protection of intellectual property rights, and for other purposes (3/24/2004) |
| S. 2237 Protecting Intellectual Property Rights Against Theft and Expropriation Act of 2004 (3/25/2004) |
| S. 2227 Anticounterfeiting Act of 2004 (3/23/2004) |
| H.R. 3872 Consumer Access to Information Act of 2004 (3/02/2004) |
| H.R. 3754 Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (2/03/2004) |
| S. 2013 Satellite Home Viewer Extension Act of 2004 (1/21/2004) |
2003
| S. 1932 ART Act (11/22/2003) |
| S. 1933 Enhancing Federal Obscenity Reporting and Copyright Enforcement Act of 2003 (11/21/2003) |
| H.R. 3632 Anti-counterfeiting Amendments of 2003 (11/21/2003) |
| H.R. 3559 To amend title 10, United States Code, to allow faculty members at Department of Defense service academies and schools of professional military education to secure copyrights for certain scholarly works that they produce as part of their official duties in order to submit such works for publication, and for other purposes (11/20/2003) |
| H.R. 3261 Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (10/8/2003) |
| S. 1621 Consumers, Schools, and Libraries Digital Rights Management Awareness Act of 2003 (9/16/2003) |
| H. R. 2752 Author, Consumer, and Computer Owner Protection and Security (ACCOPS) Act of 2003 |
| H. R. 2613 Public Access to Science Act |
| H. R. 2601 Public Domain Enhancement Act |
| H. R. 2517 Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2003 |
| H. R. 2344 Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2003 |
| S. 1191 Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2003 |
| H. R. 2255 To extend the suspension of certain payments to be made by noncommercial webcasters under sections 112 and 114 of title 17, United States Code, and for other purposes |
| H. R. 1066 Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations (BALANCE) Act of 2003 |
| H.R. 107 Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2003 |
| H.R.490 Instructional Materials Accessibility Act of 2003 |
| S. 692 Digital Consumer Right to Know Act |
| H.R. 1417 Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2003 |
2002
| S.J. RES 51 Consumer Technology Bill of Rights |
| H.J.RES. 116 Consumer Technology Bill of Rights |
| H.R. 5544 Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act of 2002 |
| H.R. 5522 Digital Choice and Freedom Act of 2002 |
| H.R. 5469 Small Webcaster Amendments Act of 2002 |
| H.R. 5285 Internet Radio Fairness Act |
| H.R. 5211 Amendment to limit the liability of copyright owners for protecting their works on peer-to-peer networks |
| H.R. 5057 Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2002 |
| H.R. 4643 Freelance Writers and Artists Protection Act of 2002 |
| S. 2395 Anticounterfeiting Amendments of 2002 |
| S. 2082 Playwrights Licensing Relief Act of 2002 |
| S. 2048 Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act |
| S. 2031 Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2002 |
2001
| H.R. 3204 Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2001 |
| S. 1611 Intellectual Property Protection Restoration Act of 2001 |
| H.R. 2724 Music Online Competition Act of 2001 |
| H.R. 2100 Twenty-First Century Distance Learning Enhancement Act |
| S. 487 Technology, Education And Copyright Harmonization Act Satellite Access to Local Stations Act |
| H.R. 614 Copyright Technical Corrections Act of 2001 |
| S. 320 Intellectual Property and High Technology Technical Amendments Act of 2001 |
| H.R. 614 Copyright Technical Corrections Act of 2001 |
| S. 487 Technology, Education And Copyright Harmonization Act Satellite Access to Local Stations Act |
Other IP and Internet Related Proposals:
| S. 630 CAN SPAM Act of 2001 |
2000
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1999
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H.R. 1858 Consumer and Investor Access to Information Act of 1999 |
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H.R. 1554 Satellite Copyright, Competition, and Consumer Protection Act |
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Enacted Legislation
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Public Law 106-379, Work Made For Hire and Copyright Corrections Act of 2000 |
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Public Law 106-113, The Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of 1999 |
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Public Law 106-160, Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act |
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Public Law 105-304 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 |
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Public Law 105-298 The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 |
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Intellectual property decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell Legal Information Institute) |
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