Re: New section 512

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Jessica Litman <litman[_at_]mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> One of my copyright students stumped me this morning with a question
> -- Both the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Public L.
> 105-298, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Public L. 105-304,
> purport to add a new section 512 to title 17. (I was embarrassed to
> confess that I hadn't noticed the duplication.)

You think that's bad, there are 4 sections 101(1) and 101(2), and three sections 101(3).

> In any event, as my student put it, "Which is
> the right section 512?" and "What's the other one called?"

PL 105-298 came first (October 27, compared to PL105-304's oct. 28), so I'd call its contribution "the First Section 512" and the other "the Second Section 512." Until Congress someday gets around to making another technical corrections bill, anyway. ("life+70? Shoot, we meant life+170!")

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