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The United States and International Copyright

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

Max M. Kampelman
Max M. Kampelman*
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University of Minnesota
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The word “copyright” comes from the Latin copia, which is translated as “plenty” and which means, in general, the right to make plenty or to copy. In its specific application it means the right to multiply copies of those products of the human brain known as literature and art. It has also been defined as “the power to determine whether the work shall be published at all, the manner in which, if published, it shall be done, and to whom.”

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1947 , pp. 406 - 429
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1947

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