Crane on Law by James Crane

Corporate legal departments dedicate anywhere from 5 – 50% of their legal department assets to the enforcement of intellectual property rights.

The first federal law of copyrights, the Copyright Act of 1790, was signed into law by George Washington on May 31, 1790. The goal of the Act was the “encouragement of learning” by granting authors the “sole right and liberty of printing, reprinting, publishing and vending” the copies of their “maps, charts, and books” for 14 years with one renewable 14 year term if the creator was still alive. If you want to see the Act in its entirety, click here.