The Statute of Anne, 1709
The first copyright act was written in 1709 and went into effect in 1710.
The copyright designs and patents Act 1988. :)
In the UK, it is the Copyright, Designs, and Patent Act 1988.
Copyright law is a subset of Intellectual Property (IP) law.
The first federal copyright act was in 1790; prior to that, all states but Delaware had their own copyright laws.
The current act (15 November 1988) was designed to restate and amend the 1949 Registered Designs Act and the 1939 Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act. It was amended in 1990 and 1991. There were major copyright acts in 1956 and 1911, and of course the first copyright act was in 1709.
The Copyright Act 1957 is an outdated Indian copyright law. The current revision is the Copyright Act 1999.
"Copyright Law of the United States" (Title 17 of the United States Code). TDigital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998The Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004The Intellectual Property Protection and Courts Amendments Act of 2004
The Copyright Act 1965 is an outdated UK copyright law; the current law is the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Copyright is addressed in the Constitution (1787) and codified in the Copyright Act of 1790. Prior to that, there were a few private copyright acts with comparatively short terms.
It was first discussed in 1904, and codified in the 1906 copyright act.
The copyright symbol consists of a C in a circle has become a widely recognised symbol. The copyright symbol was first used in section 18 of the 1909 American Copyright Act.