This Handbook is intended as an educational tool to describe generally when a work created in the United States between January 31, 1923 and December 31, 1977—the range of dates that covers most works that were created under the Copyright Act of 1909 (“1909 Act”) and that may still be protected by copyright—is likely to be protected by copyright today and when it is likely to be in the public domain
This case arose out of U.S. treaty obligations to restore copyright to foreign authors who had faile...
Document is a proposed draft of a decision tree to be used in mass digitization workflows to facilit...
For those who want to teach or learn more about American copyright law, Copyright For The Rest Of Us...
Libraries tend to make assumptions about copyright. The assumption is that any work published since ...
Footnote 1: This chart was first published in Peter B. Hirtle, Recent Changes To The Copyright Law...
A discussion of finding and making use of public domain material, the legal concept of fair use & th...
On January 1, 2003, a small, quiet historic transformation took place throughout the United States: ...
This article examines the public domain by looking at the gulf between what authors really do and th...
D-Lib Magazine 13: 7/8 (July/August 2008) It has long been known that most of the works published fr...
On January 1, 2019, works copyrighted in 1923 will enter the public domain. This is the first time w...
In 1998, Congress extended the term of copyright protection, giving existing copyrighted works an ad...
On the first day of each year, Public Domain Day celebrates the moment when copyrights expire, and b...
Copyright is intended to incentivize the production of new creative works and protect authors’ conne...
This thesis presents a framework for understanding the historical basis of copyright in the United S...
"A Framework for Analyzing any U.S. Copyright Problem" was developed as part of a Copyright for Educ...
This case arose out of U.S. treaty obligations to restore copyright to foreign authors who had faile...
Document is a proposed draft of a decision tree to be used in mass digitization workflows to facilit...
For those who want to teach or learn more about American copyright law, Copyright For The Rest Of Us...
Libraries tend to make assumptions about copyright. The assumption is that any work published since ...
Footnote 1: This chart was first published in Peter B. Hirtle, Recent Changes To The Copyright Law...
A discussion of finding and making use of public domain material, the legal concept of fair use & th...
On January 1, 2003, a small, quiet historic transformation took place throughout the United States: ...
This article examines the public domain by looking at the gulf between what authors really do and th...
D-Lib Magazine 13: 7/8 (July/August 2008) It has long been known that most of the works published fr...
On January 1, 2019, works copyrighted in 1923 will enter the public domain. This is the first time w...
In 1998, Congress extended the term of copyright protection, giving existing copyrighted works an ad...
On the first day of each year, Public Domain Day celebrates the moment when copyrights expire, and b...
Copyright is intended to incentivize the production of new creative works and protect authors’ conne...
This thesis presents a framework for understanding the historical basis of copyright in the United S...
"A Framework for Analyzing any U.S. Copyright Problem" was developed as part of a Copyright for Educ...
This case arose out of U.S. treaty obligations to restore copyright to foreign authors who had faile...
Document is a proposed draft of a decision tree to be used in mass digitization workflows to facilit...
For those who want to teach or learn more about American copyright law, Copyright For The Rest Of Us...