Re: Abandoning property (Was: Copyright Extension Bill Passes Congress)

On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Timothy Phillips <hrothgar[_at_]telepath.com> wrote:
>
> Under U.S. law copyright holders have always been considered to have
> public obligations. The 1976 law obscures this principle by applying
> copyright from the moment of fixation, to unpublished and published
> works alike.

That's kind of misleading. Unpublished works were protected by copyring in the U.S prior to the 1976 Act -- it's just that they were protected by state law rather than federal law.

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