Showing posts with label 1st law protecting copyright in US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st law protecting copyright in US. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Washington signed into law the first copyright law; Daily Record, February 22, 2017

Daily Record; 

Washington signed into law the first copyright law


"On May 31, 1790, President Washington signed the Copyright Act of 1790 into law. ...[T]he legislation was the first law protecting copyright in the United States...

Copies of the law bearing Washington’s signature were re-printed in newspapers throughout the country."