Copyright Notice - Foreign Works Published in The USA Without Copyright Notice

Foreign Works Published in The USA Without Copyright Notice

Certain foreign works published in the USA without copyright notice prior to 1989, which made them "public domain", have had their copyrights "restored" under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, provided the rights had not already expired in their country of original publication prior to 1996. This creates the anomaly that foreign works from 1923 to 1989 may be afforded more US copyright protection than domestic US works published in that same period, even though they were both published without any copyright notice.

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