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The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark statute in United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 statutory
Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a country, state, city, or county. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy....
 copyright
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
 law. The Act was superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976
Copyright Act of 1976

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a piece of United States copyright legislation and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions....
, but it remains effective for copyrighted works created before the 1976 Act went into effect in 1978. It allowed for works to be copyrighted for a period of 28 years from the date of publication, renewable once for a second 28-year term. Like the Copyright Act of 1790
Copyright Act of 1790

The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal government of the United States copyright act of Parliament to be instituted in the United States, though most of the U....
 before it, the copyrighted work could be extended for a second term of equal value.






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The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark statute in United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 statutory
Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a country, state, city, or county. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy....
 copyright
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
 law. The Act was superseded by the Copyright Act of 1976
Copyright Act of 1976

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a piece of United States copyright legislation and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions....
, but it remains effective for copyrighted works created before the 1976 Act went into effect in 1978. It allowed for works to be copyrighted for a period of 28 years from the date of publication, renewable once for a second 28-year term. Like the Copyright Act of 1790
Copyright Act of 1790

The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal government of the United States copyright act of Parliament to be instituted in the United States, though most of the U....
 before it, the copyrighted work could be extended for a second term of equal value. Under the 1909 Act, federal statutory copyright protection attached to original works only when those works were 1) published and 2) had a notice of copyright affixed. Thus, state copyright law governed protection for unpublished works, but published works, whether containing a notice of copyright or not, were governed exclusively by federal law. If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain
Public domain

File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
. The 1976 Act changed this result, providing that copyright protection attaches to works that are original and fixed in a tangible medium of expression, regardless of publication or affixation of notice.

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  • of the Sept. 1972 revision of the Copyright Act of 1909 (misleadingly labeled).
  • as originally passed and each revision.