, enacted to reverse the longstanding requirement under US law that a second term of copyright protection
is contingent on a renewal registration with the Library of Congress
.
It amended the 1976 Copyright Act.
Works copyrighted between January 1, 1964 and December 31, 1977 are affected by the 1992 Amendment. Renewal registration for these works was made optional by this amendment, and a second term was automatically secured.
Under the 1909 copyright
, works copyrighted in the United States before January 1, 1978, were subject to a renewal system in which the term of copyright was divided into two consecutive terms. Strict time limits were imposed on Renewal registration to secure the second term and extending copyright to the maximum length.
Only in America.
I can't believe that having said what I said was interpreted as having been what I said when I said it, because I said it where I said it, when I said it, and who I said it to.
I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.
If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped.
Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.
Thank god for money.