Copyright Act
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Copyright Act may refer to:

Canada
  • Copyright Act of Canada
    Copyright Act of Canada
    Copyright Act of Canada is Canada's federal statute governing copyright law in Canada. The Copyright Act of Canada which was first passed in 1921 and substantially amended in 1988 and 1997. In 2005 an attempt to amend the Canadian Copyright Act was made but Bill C-60 did not pass into law before...


Hong Kong
  • Copyright Ordinance
    Hong Kong copyright law
    Copyright law in Hong Kong to a great extent follows the English model. The Basic Law of Hong Kong, its constitutional document, guarantees a high degree of autonomy and continuation of laws previously in force after its reunification with Mainland China. Hong Kong therefore continues to maintain...

    1997


India
New Zealand

United Kingdom
  • Statute of Anne
    Statute of Anne
    The Statute of Anne was the first copyright law in the Kingdom of Great Britain , enacted in 1709 and entering into force on 10 April 1710...

     or Copyright Act 1709, the first copyright act of the United Kingdom
  • Copyright Act 1842
    Copyright Act 1842
    The Copyright Act 1842 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, which received the Royal Assent on 1 July 1842 and was repealed in 1911...

  • Copyright Act 1956
    Copyright Act 1956
    The Copyright Act 1956 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received its Royal Assent on 5 November 1956. The Copyright Act 1956 expanded copyright law in the UK and was passed in order to bring UK copyright law in line with international copyright law and technological...

     (4 & 5 Eliz.2 c.52)
  • Copyright Act 1911
    Copyright Act 1911
    The Copyright Act 1911, also known as the Imperial Copyright Act of 1911, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 16 December 1911. The act established copyright law in the UK and the British Empire...

  • Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
    Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
    The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 , also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received Royal Assent on 15 November 1988. It reformulates almost completely the statutory basis of copyright law in the United Kingdom, which had, until then, been...

    , current copyright law of the United Kingdom


United States
  • Copyright Act of 1790
    Copyright Act of 1790
    The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States, though most of the states had passed various legislation securing copyrights in the years immediately following the Revolutionary War...

  • Copyright Act of 1909
    Copyright Act of 1909
    The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark statute in United States statutory copyright law. It became Public Law number 60-349 on March 4, 1909 by the 60th United States Congress, and it went into effect on July 1, 1909...

  • Copyright Act of 1976
    Copyright Act of 1976
    The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions...

  • International Copyright Act of 1891, a U.S. copyright act

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