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    The Register of Copyrights is the director of the United States Copyright Office within the Library of Congress, as provided by 17 U.S.C. § 701. The Office...
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    chain of title for copyrighted works. The Register of Copyrights heads the Copyright Office. Shira Perlmutter is the 14th and current Register, since...
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    misnomer. "Restored copyrights" include not only copyrights on works that have lapsed and are restored, but also new US copyrights on works that were never...
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    questions raised by these new forms of communication. Barbara Ringer, who later became US Register of Copyrights in 1973, began taking an active role...
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    attribution. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial rights". This means that copyrights granted by the law of a certain...
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    Karyn Temple (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    13th United States Register of Copyrights, appointed to the position on March 27, 2019. Temple was Acting Register of Copyrights from October 21, 2016...
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  • of Marybeth Peters, The Register of Copyrights, before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary". Copyright.gov...
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    Barbara Ringer (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    overhauled the 1909 Copyright Act. Ringer was also the first woman to serve as the Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office. During her...
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    Shira Perlmutter (category United States Registers of Copyright)
    professor and the 14th Register of Copyrights. Perlmutter has given public lectures on copyright, stating that Americans desire copyright laws that make sense...
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    Comments of AAA (American Automobile Association)". Section 1201 of Title 17: A report of the Register of Copyrights – United States Copyright Office,...
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