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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 8A — Guam

§ 1421n. Applicability of Federal copyright laws

Statutory text

The laws of the United States relating to copyrights, and to the enforcement of rights arising thereunder, shall have the same force and effect in Guam as in the continental United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 84–852 § 24 · 70 Stat. 732

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1421n

    (Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 24, 70 Stat. 911.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 24, 70 Stat. 911.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The laws of the United States relating to copyrights, referred to in text, are classified generally to Title 17, Copyrights.

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 24, 70 Stat. 911.)

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