TV History
First broadcast of a radio transmission consisted of
At first, copyright only applied to
America’s “addiction” to TV really began in
Copyright is defined as the right to copy, distribute, and
Broadcasts were done live until the
Musical compositions were not explicitly protected until
the Copyright Act of 1831
1,2,3,4
Nowadays, the five modern broadcast television networks are
NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and the CW
Congress passed a law almost identical to the Statute of Anne in 1790 as
the first American copyright law
Telecasts were experimental in 1925, but really took off after
the 30’s
The first copyright law was the Statute of Anne and was enacted in England in