Chaplin Gold Rush Copyright Issues

Scroll down to Roy Export (Chaplin EState). Many folks have complained
that copyright holders and others are using trade agreements to
circumvent copyright law and even Cong authority over same

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Uruguay Round General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the
Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) (Pub. L. 103-465; 108 Stat. 4809
(1994)) provide for the restoration of copyright in certain works
that
were in the public domain in the United States. Under section 104A of
title 17 <SUP>1 of the United States Code as provided by the URAA,
copyright protection was restored on January 1, 1996, in certain
works
by foreign nationals or domiciliaries of World Trade Organization
(WTO)
or Berne countries that were not protected under the copyright law
for
the reasons listed below in (2). Specifically, for restoration of
copyright, a work must be an original work of authorship that:


http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1997/62fr20211.html
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