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Section 302 of the Act extended protection to "a term consisting of the life of the author and fifty years after the author's death". In addition, the Act created a static 75-year term (dated from the date of publication) for anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made for hire. Under section 304, the extension term for works copyrighted before 1978 that had not already entered the public domain was increased from 28 years to 47 years, giving a total term of 75 years.

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According to section 408 of the Act, registration of a work with the Copyright Office is not a prerequisite for copyright protection. The Act does, however, allow for registration, and gives the Copyright Office the power to promulgate the necessary forms. Aside from Copyright Office paperwork, the Act requires only that one copy, or two copies if the work has been published, be deposited with the Office to accomplish registration. Though registration is not required for copyright protection to attach to a work, section 411 of the Act does require registration before a copyright infringement action by the creator of the work can proceed. Even if registration is denied, however, an infringement action can continue if the creator of the work joins the Copyright Office as a defendant, requiring the court to determine the copyrightability of the work before addressing the issue of infringement.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926 was issued there (not to be confused with the more famous 1917 Balfour Declaration about Palestine).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones#Formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_series_created_by_Mike_Judge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_with_screenplays_by_Mike_Judge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_directed_by_Mike_Judge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Papon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)

Harold had defeated Norwegian King Harald Hardrada only a few weeks earlier.

The first of the entity's appearances was on TNG 1x13 Datalore; it would not appear again until Lower Decks season 2.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111018150223/https://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=241523 :

On October 13, 1881, a short time before moving to Palestine, Eliezer Ben Yehuda held what is thought to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew with two friends at a Paris café. That moment became the impetus for Ben Yehuda’s at times tortuous revival of the language, which for centuries had been relegated solely to the written word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fourth_Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Fifth_Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadic_tribes_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotified_Tribes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Castes_and_Scheduled_Tribes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_2F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_(spacecraft)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Manned_Space_Program

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#Israel,_Palestine,_and_the_United_States

October 12, 2017 press statement from the US State Department: https://web.archive.org/web/20190408053146/https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2017/10/274748.htm

October 31, 2011 reporting about the US suspending payment of its dues after Palestine was admitted as a member: https://web.archive.org/web/20200226162636/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-palestinians-unesco-usa-funding/u-s-stops-unesco-funding-over-palestinian-vote-idUSTRE79U5ED20111031

Columbus's journal entry for that day describes the people he encountered:

They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion. I, our Lord being pleased, will take hence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses, that they may learn to speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Revolution

“We offended a lot of people in those days by having what's spoken of as 'neo-communistic' ideas like a multiracial crew and sexual equality,” said Roddenberry. “I dearly hope I will offend some of you with this new one, because we must continue to do that. We must continue to talk about exciting and different things.”