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Archive: January 2019 (2 Posts)

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National Handwriting Day: John Adams Legal Complaint

Posted by: Kelly McKenna

When I saw that National Handwriting Day was coming up, I decided to consult with the Law Library’s Rare Book Curator, Nathan Dorn. This felt like a great opportunity to highlight an item from our Rare Book Collection featuring handwritten script. With over 25,000 volumes of books and bound manuscripts, the Law Library’s collection of …

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Published Works Enter the Public Domain in the United States for First Time in Twenty Years

Posted by: Kelly McKenna

The following is a repost from the Copyright Office blog, Creativity at Work. This is a guest post by Anandashankar Mazumdar, outreach and education specialist in the Office of Public Information and Education. New Year’s Day 2019 was a landmark for American copyright law. For the first time in twenty years, published works of expression—including …

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