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That's not quite true. Copyright is in the Constitution, controlled by the States.
by gowld 6y ago
That's not quite true. Copyright is in the Constitution, controlled by the States.
- jrochkind1 6y agoCopyright law is definitely definitely federal. There are no state-by-state differences to copyright in the USA, it is exclusively federal. You are right the constitution gives the federal government (not the states) the authority to create it. Article 1 Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power… To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"