MB wrote:
[snip]> In 1992, Congress enacted a law that made renewal automatic for
works
published between 1964 and 1978. However, if a work was published
[snip]
This baffles me, since the 1978 rewrite of the U.S. Copyright law
automatically extended the term for works which were then in their first
or second copyright term to be a total of 75 years. so anything
copyrighted after 1964 was still in its first copyright term and was
thus automatically extended.
So why would Congress have needed to pass an additional law to extend
those terms? I realize that an additional 20 years was added on, but
there was no need for a legislated automatic renewal since the 1978 act
had already done that.
Or did I misunderstand something?
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David H. Bailey
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