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Unlike works of the U.S. government, works produced by contractors under government contracts are protected under U.S. copyright law [disputed (for: only true at times) – discuss]. The holdership of the copyright depends on the terms of the contract and the type of work undertaken.
Commonly, this involves someone creating or distributing a "copy" of a protected work that is "substantially similar" to the original version. Infringements requires copying. If two people happen to write exactly the same story, without knowledge of the other, there is no infringement.
A government entity may enforce copyright or acquire a patent for a computer software program or components of a program created by that government entity without statutory authority. If a government entity acquires a patent to a computer software program or component of a program, the data shall be treated as trade secret information under ...
The purpose of copyright registration is to place on record a verifiable account of the date and content of the work in question, so that in the event of a legal claim, or case of infringement or plagiarism, the copyright owner can produce a copy of the work from an official government source.
CERTIFIED TRUE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL I certify that this is a true copy of the original document. Signed: Dated: Authority to sign: Telephone number: Certified copies can be quite basic in Australia due to the lack of legislation. More detail is often required by the person or agency requiring it.
[5] But the Continental Congress had no power under the Articles of Confederation to authorize a federal copyright law; [5] instead, it passed a resolution encouraging the states "to secure to the authors or publishers of any new book not hitherto printed... the copy right of such books for a certain time not less than fourteen years from the ...
Furthermore, the clause only permits protection of the writings of authors and the discoveries of inventors. Hence, writings may only be protected to the extent that they are original, [7] [non-primary source needed] and "inventions" must be truly inventive and not merely obvious improvements on existing knowledge.
A draft of the bill was introduced in both the House and Senate in 1964, but the original version of the Act was revised multiple times between 1964 and 1976 (see House report number 94-1476). The bill was passed as S. 22 of the 94th Congress by a vote of 97–0 in the Senate on February 19, 1976.