Introduction:
The U.S constitution’s Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, “congress has the proper power to pomote the progress of science and useful arts, by protecting for the limited times to authors and developers the exclusive right to their respective writing’s and discoveries.”
First Copyright Act 1790:
The first copyright Act was passed in 1790 in US that contained most of the principles in English Law. When in 1790 the copyright was enacted, it protected published maps, charts and books written by living U.S authors as well as unpublished manuscripts by them. Under this Act the foreign authors were not protected. This has been stated as “complete with piracy provisions it can be shown as the action of a developing country to protect its growing culture while exploiting the cultural content of more developed nations”. The contention was remedied by the copyright Act of 1891. The stating present American law is contained in the act of 1976 which is meant as the most major copyright law in the world dealing with most of the problems in copyright legislation that is resulting from the progress of technology. The U.S law has a registration system for copyright. …show more content…
The Act protected an author the exclusive right to publish and maps, charts and books for a term of 14 years, with the right to renewal for 1 additional 14 year term if the author was not dead. The Act does not regulate other kinds of writing’s as such musical compositions or newspapers and specifically stated that it did not prohibit copying the words of foreign authors. The greater majority of writing’s were never registered- between 1790 and 1799, of approximately 13500 titles published in the United States, only 556 works were
The U.S constitution’s Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, “congress has the proper power to pomote the progress of science and useful arts, by protecting for the limited times to authors and developers the exclusive right to their respective writing’s and discoveries.”
First Copyright Act 1790:
The first copyright Act was passed in 1790 in US that contained most of the principles in English Law. When in 1790 the copyright was enacted, it protected published maps, charts and books written by living U.S authors as well as unpublished manuscripts by them. Under this Act the foreign authors were not protected. This has been stated as “complete with piracy provisions it can be shown as the action of a developing country to protect its growing culture while exploiting the cultural content of more developed nations”. The contention was remedied by the copyright Act of 1891. The stating present American law is contained in the act of 1976 which is meant as the most major copyright law in the world dealing with most of the problems in copyright legislation that is resulting from the progress of technology. The U.S law has a registration system for copyright. …show more content…
The Act protected an author the exclusive right to publish and maps, charts and books for a term of 14 years, with the right to renewal for 1 additional 14 year term if the author was not dead. The Act does not regulate other kinds of writing’s as such musical compositions or newspapers and specifically stated that it did not prohibit copying the words of foreign authors. The greater majority of writing’s were never registered- between 1790 and 1799, of approximately 13500 titles published in the United States, only 556 works were