Copyright law changes

If you've registered your copyright, minor changes such as correcting spelling errors will not affect your registration—however, if you make significant edits, you will be required to reapply for copyright.
Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work.
Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's consent.
President Bill Clinton signed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 on October 27, 1998.

Feb 22, 2021The Copyright Act of 1976 made several other major changes to the law. It also codified “fair use” into the statutes rather than simply the

Filing An Application Does Not Equal Registration

In 2019, the Supreme Court held that registration of a copyright is required as a condition of filing an infringement action.
The copyright owner had filed a suit after it had applied for but not received a registration.
The Supreme Court also held that once copyright is registered, the owner can recover retroactively for infringement.

How does the Copyright Act affect digital music?

This Act was signed into law on October 11, 2018 and it incorporated three pieces of legislation that alter copyright law as follows:

New music licensing collective.
The Act simplifies the licensing rules for digital music providers and creates a new music licensing collective (MLC) which should take effect in 2021.

The Public Domain Opens For Business

On January 1, 2019 — for the first time since 1998 — expiring copyrighted works entered the public domain.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Act, effective in 1998 extended copyright for twenty years, and at the same time, prevented any works from expiring for twenty years.
That ended in 2019 when works first published in the U.S. in 1923 entered the public.

What changes in copyright law affect your business?

Below are some major changes in copyright law that may affect you or your business.
On January 1, 2019 — for the first time since 1998 — expiring copyrighted works entered the public domain.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Act, effective in 1998 extended copyright for twenty years, and at the same time, prevented any works from expiring for twenty years.

What was the Copyright Act of 1976?

The 1976 Act was a comprehensive revision of the copyright law in Title 17.
Listed below in chronological order of their enactment are the Copyright Act of 1976 and subsequent amendments to Title 17.

When did copyright law become law?

United States copyright law was last generally revised by the Copyright Act of 1976, codified in Title 17 of the United States Code.
The United States Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to create copyright law under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, known as the Copyright Clause.