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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.
Under the 1976 Act, federal copyright requires only a fixation of an original work of authorship in a tangible medium of expression. Renewal is not compulsory, and a copyright owner can register at any time. The 1976 Act makes registration (or refusal of registration [8]) a requisite for an infringement action.
Likewise, the Office will not register a government edict issued by any foreign government or any translation prepared by a government employee acting within the course of his or her official duties. [ 23 ]
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Only former Register to return to service as acting Register; 11 Marybeth Peters: August 7, 1994: December 31, 2010: 5,991 days – Maria Pallante: January 1, 2011: May 31, 2011: 151 days Acting Register; 12 June 1, 2011: October 21, 2016: 1,970 days – Karyn Temple: October 21, 2016: March 26, 2019: 887 days Longest serving acting Register (2 ...
The first Federal statute concerning copyright in government publications was the Printing Law enacted in 1895. [6] Section 52 of that Act provided that copies of "Government Publications" could not be copyrighted. Prior to 1895, no court decision had occasion to consider any claim of copyright on behalf of the Government itself.
Federal law expressly denies U.S. copyright protection to two types of government works: works of the U.S. federal government itself, and all edicts of any government regardless of level or whether or not foreign. [1] Other than addressing these "edicts of government", U.S. federal law does not address copyrights of U.S. state and local ...
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