The copyright laws are included in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and Chapters 10, 11, 12 of Title 17 of the U.S. Code (U.S.C.). The copyright laws are based on The Copyright Act of 1976 which was enacted on October 19, 1976 as Pub. L. No. 94–553, 90 Stat. 2541. There have been approximately 50 amendments to the copyright law since then, only a few of which are of interest here. These statutory enactments include amendments related to copyright protection for computer programs (Pub. L. 96–517, enacted on December 12, 1980); the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act (Pub. L. No. 98–620, Nov. 8, 1984, adding Chapter 9 to Title 17); the Berne Convention Implementation Act (Pub. L. No. 100–568 enacted October 31, 1988) and ...
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