Supplementary Copyright Statutes, US Copy. Office by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
page 76 of 136 (55%)
page 76 of 136 (55%)
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revised in 1908, 1928, 1948, 1967, 1971), hereinafter cited as the
Berne Convention. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Works from any source country eligible under the URAA may be subject to automatic copyright restoration. However, to be so restored, a work must meet certain other requirements: 1. It is not in the public domain in its source country through expiration of the term of protection; 2. It is in the public domain in the United States due to noncompliance with formalities imposed at any time by United States copyright law, lack of subject matter protection in the case of sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, or lack of national eligibility; 3. It has at least one author or rightholder who was, at the time the work was created, a national or domiciliary of an eligible country; 4. If published, it was first published in an eligible country and was not published in the United States during the 30-day period following publication in such eligible country. Notwithstanding the fact that the work meets the above requirements, any work ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work. |
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