Copyright: the legal basis for protecting creative works of writers, artists, musicians and others.

by James K. Sayre

Copyright: the legal basis for protecting creative works of writers, artists, musicians and others. In recent years, the U. S. Congress has increased the copyright protection of writers, artists and musicians. Currently, the minute that you write something down on your computer's word processor or more traditionally, with pencil or pen, it is a protected work, covered by our federal copyright laws.

The United States Constitution, in Article One, Section 8, granted to Cnngress the power to protect the written works of authors. In 1790, the first U. S. Copyright law was passed. These Copyright laws have been modified and added to several times since 1790.

Google.com Corporation is heading for some serious legal trouble with its recently announced plan to scan, copy, digitize and store the massive holdings of many major university libraries which include thousands of books that are currently protected by federal copyright law. Possible Google copyright violations 14 December 2004.

Some links to information about U. S. Copyright law:

The U. S. Copyright Office at: U. S. Copyright Office

Bitlaw at: Bitlaw

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