Sentence examples for copyright statute from inspiring English sources

America's first copyright statute, passed in 1790, granted copyrights for 14 years.

Fashion designers find no comfort in the federal copyright statute, which protects authors and creators, but does not extend to "useful articles," including apparel and shoes.

"The First Amendment protects speech, and the copyright statute restricts the uses of speech," said William W. Fisher, a professor at Harvard Law School.

Despite "widely recognised flaws", the Act became a model copyright statute, both within the United Kingdom and internationally.

In the United States, the Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution and the first Federal copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790, both draw on the Statute of Anne.

Both theories were taken into account in Donaldson v Beckett, as well as in the drafting of the Statute of Anne, and Deene infers that they subsequently had an impact on the Belgian debates over their first copyright statute.

Mr. Dolan-Gavitookook his site down the day after the suits were filed but put it back up the next day after poring over copyright statutes.

ACTA end-runs Congress by changing U.S. copyright law and stripping Congress of authority to fix problems with copyright statutes.

Short-term legal remedies are proposed based on various Creative Commons' licenses that are designed to advance openness within existing national copyright statutes.

In part, the act expands the term "financial gain" to encompass "anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works," bolster prison sentences for not-for-profit willful infringement of the copyright statutes, and requires that "victims" of piracy be granted the opportunity to prepare "impact statements, including estimated economic impact".

But, if Google is somehow violating copyright by "stealing" any company's content, that company can bring claims under our very aggressive copyright statutes to punish Google.