the need of any further renewal.


ANOTHER SPECIAL SITUATION:
COPYRIGHTS MORE THAN 56 YEARS OLD

The automatic extension applies not only to copyrights less than 56 years
old but also to older copyrights that have previously been extended in
duration under a series of Congressional enactments beginning in 1962.
[1] As in the case of all other copyrights subsisting in their second
term between December 31, 1976, and December 31, 1977, inclusive, these
copyrights will expire at the end of the calendar year in which the 95th
anniversary of the original date of copyright occurs, so long as the
copyright was still in its renewal phase at the time Public Law 105-298
became effective. [2]

EXAMPLE: A work that was first entered for copyright on October 5,
1907, and renewed in 1935, would formerly have fallen into the public
domain after October 5, 1963. The first Act extended the copyright to
December 31, 1965; the second Act extended it to December 31, 1967; the
third Act extended it to December 31, 1968; the fourth Act extended it
to December 31, 1969; the fifth Act extended it to December 31, 1970;
the sixth Act extended it to December 31, 1971; the seventh Act
extended it to December 31, 1972; the eighth Act extended it to
December 31, 1974; the ninth Act extended it to December 31, 1976, and
the Copyright Act of 1976 finally extended the copyright through the
end of 1982 (75 years from the end of the year in which the copyright
was originally secured).