Traditional copyright gives owners the exclusive right to make copies of their work, usually for a limited time.
If people want to use copyrighted work, they usually have to ask for permission from the creator..
Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases.
In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks.
Contact the U.S.
Patent & Trademark Office, TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov or see Circular 33, for further information..
Title 17 of the United States Code is the United States Code that outlines United States copyright law.
It was codified into positive law on July 30, 1947.
The latest version is from December 2016.
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Under the current law, works created on or after January 1, 1978, have a copyright term of life of the author plus seventy years after the author’s death.
If the work is a joint work, the term lasts for seventy years after the last surviving author’s death.
Works consisting entirely of information that is commonly known and containing no original authorship are not protected by copyright.
This could include:
