Copyright law of the United States - History (prior to this, "[t]he interim renewal acts of 1962 through 1974 ensured that the copyright in any work in its second term as of September 19, 1962, would not expire before Dec. 31, 1976.")[1]

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The origins of some of these rights can be traced back to ancient Greek culture, ancient Jewish law, and ancient Roman law.[3] In sixth century B.C. Greek society there emerged the notion of the individual self, including personal ideals, ambition, and creativity.[4]. The individual self is important in copyright because it distinguishes the creativity produced by an individual from the rest of society. In ancient Jewish Talmudic law there can be found recognition of the moral rights of the author and the economic or property rights of an author.[5]

  1. ^ Bell, Tom W. "Trend of Maximum U.S. General Copyright Term". Tom Bell's Personal Website. Retrieved 23 October 2011.; see also Tom W. Bell, "Escape From Copyright: Market Success vs. Statutory Failure in the Protection of Expressive Works," (originally published in the University of Cincinnati Law Review 69), but consult footnote 202 in HTML version found here: http://www.tomwbell.com/writings/(C)Esc.html
  2. ^ Royal Irish Academy. "The Cathach/The Psalter of St. Columba". Library Cathach.
  3. ^ Bettig, Ronald V. (1996). Copyright Culture: The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. p. 11.
  4. ^ Ploman, Edward W. and L. Clark Hamilton (1980). Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 5.
  5. ^ Ploman, Edward W. and L. Clark Hamilton (1980). Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 7.


As this page currently includes only the early history of copyright law in the United States, I have included a citation on the interim renewal acts of 1962-1974 in the main page of Copyright law of the United States. MXYXYM (talk) 00:47, 23 October 2011 (UTC)