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Publish or perish! The copyright law's requirement. (Colloquium).

The Copyright Revision Act of 1976 made significant changes in copyright fundamentals. The law affected everything from the method of creating copyright and the rights covered to the method of enforcing and protecting the copyright. Educators--as well as writers, artists, photographers, and software developers--should be aware of a looming deadline for publishing their original materials.

The preexisting statute, known as the 1909 Act, had strict and technical requirements for creating federal copyright protection. Under that body of law, a copyrightable work was protected by a so-called "common-law copyright" until the work was published. In fact, copyrightable works were ...

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