Klekas v. EMI Films, Inc.

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• explaining that before passage of the 1976 Act, works not protected by the federal copyright statute were protected by state law
• unpublished work retained common law copyright until it was publicly released, and thereafter, anyone could copy it unless the expressionist had received a statutory copyright

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