October 19, 1976 – President Gerald Ford Signs the “New” Copyright Act…and Much More
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OCTOBER 19, 2023
On this day in 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the “new” US Copyright Act. The culmination of a decades-long effort, and well before the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Copyright Term Extension Act were passed in 1998, the 1976 Copyright Act ushered in a new era of copyright law in the United States.
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