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Process
How?
What?
British Version
100
Noah Webster
Who is the"father of american copyright"
100
Registration of copyright creates a public record of the copyrighted work and publicly identifies the copyright holder.
What is the benefit of registration?
100
The public has the right to discover facts and exchange ideas freely.
What rights do the general public have with facts altogether?
100
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator exclusive rights for its use and distribution.
What is copyright and what does it do?
100
In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register
When and who required lawfully printed books to be placed into its database?
200
The Copyright Act of 1790 was the first federal copyright act to be instituted in the United States
What was the Copyright Act of 1790.
200
The average processing time for hard-copy registrations is 10 months.
What is the average processing time for hard-copy registrations?
200
An author’s original compilation, arrangement, or selection of facts may be the subject of copyright, but not the facts themselves
How much can an author copyright with what they make?
200
Copyright lasts 95 years. 
How long does a copyright last?
200
As the world's first copyright statute it granted publishers of a book legal protection of 14 years with the commencement of the statute. It also granted 21 years of protection for any book already in print
How long were the copyright for books in Britain?
300
The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States
What is the Copyright Act of 1976?
300
Copyright registration is effective on the date the U.S. Copyright Office receives the completed application and appropriate fees.
What day is the most effective for Copyright registration?
300
According to the law, one can copy elements that are not original from a prior author’s work including facts or materials in the public domain
What can you and can not copy from another author?
300
Copyright protects the original expression of the ideas presented, but not the ideas themselves.
How much does a copyright protect?
300
London booksellers turned to common law and started a 30-year period known as the battle of the booksellers
Who started the 30 - year period "war"?
400
The venue for a discussion of issues in the fair use of the electronic environment.
What is CONFU(Conference of Fair Use)?
400
When you file for copyright electronically, you will receive an email confirming your application has been received.
What happens when you file for copyright electronically?
400
A person has the right to use facts contained in a copyrighted article and use that information, whether correct or incorrect, in his or her own literary work.
Is it legal to use facts from another person's published work?
400
Copyrights started in Britan around the early 18th century.
When and where did the copyright start?
400
If the author obtained a privilege and did not transfer or sell it on, he could publish and sell copies of the book himself, and pass the privilege on to his heirs, who enjoyed an exclusive right into perpetuity
What could the author not do to grant his heirs to sell his work?
500
World Intellectual Property Organizations(WIPO)
What is the diplomatic conference on two treaties on international intellectual property laws?
500
Application for registration is to be made on as prescribed in the first schedule to the Rules. Separate applications should be made for registration of each work. Each application should be accompanied by the requisite fee prescribed in the second schedule to the Rules.The applications should be signed by the applicant or the advocate in whose favor a Vakalatnama or Power of Attorney has been executed. The Power of Attorney signed by the party and accepted by the advocate should also be enclosed.
What are the procedures of the Copyright Registration Procedure?
500
Even if some facts were discovered as the product of long and hard work, they are not entitled to protection under copyright laws. 
 How much are facts protected when newly discovered from an author?
500
You can be any age but you have to have your parent's consent if you're under 18.
How old do you have to be to get a copyright?