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It’s a Taking: Copyright Deposit Requirement Violates Fifth Amendment

By Eleanor B. Atkins on September 7, 2023

Addressing the issue for the first time, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the Copyright Act of 1976’s requirement to deposit two copies of a work with the Library of Congress within three months of the work’s publication was unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause. Valancourt Books, LLC […]

The post It’s a Taking: Copyright Deposit Requirement Violates Fifth Amendment appeared first on IP UPDATE.

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