The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights are the current international copyright conventions.
It is the conventions governing technical aspects of writing.
The conventions themselves set the rules governing the DNC and RNC. Both of these organizations have a board that makes decisions about party business.
The current law is Copyright Act 1994 as amended.
The Copyright Act 1957 is an outdated Indian copyright law. The current revision is the Copyright Act 1999.
Protocol
The Copyright Act, No. 98 of 1978.
The current UK copyright law is the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988, as amended.
The current Cuban copyright law came into effect in 1977.
Most websites give the copyright year as the current year, because that's when the page rendered. See at the bottom of this page, Copyright [current year] Answers Corporation.
Google gives the copyright date as the current year, because that's the date the page rendered.
You will find all 13 chapters of current US copyright law, as well as significant appendices at the link below.
The Copyright Act 1965 is an outdated UK copyright law; the current law is the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.