Copyright, Fair Use, DMCA & The TEACH Act

The U.S. Copyright Office is actually a department of the Library of Congress, and was created by Congress in 1897. The U.S. law has been revised several times, including recently to address digital technologies.

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression. Find more information at Copyright.gov.