the life of the creator (or for corporately-generated material, 95 years) which now applies to all works copyrighted in 1964 or after. Determining whether a US copyright was renewed Copyright renewal is significant for works with US copyright notices from –1963. All copyright registrations and renewal registrations are published by the Copyright Office in its Catalog of Copyright Entries. For works with copyright notices from 1950 onward, the catalog can be searched online for renewals using a website maintained by the Copyright Office; the corresponding renewals are from 1978–1991. For copyrights from 1923–1949 (renewals from 1951–1977), online searches can be done for book copyrights using a database maintained by Stanford University. Many volumes of the Catalog of Copyright Entries have been digitized and can be accessed through the Internet Archive. Copies of the Catalog of Copyright Entries are available at the Copyright Office itself (in Washington, D.C., and at some libraries). For listings of renewals and non-renewals of periodicals and newspapers after 1923, see the complete report prepared by the University of Pennsylvania Library. In the United Kingdom The Statute of Anne, considered the world's first copyright law and one from which US law got its inspiration, granted copyright for an original term of 14 years plus an equally-sized renewal term. This was changed by the Copyright Act 1842, which provided for a single life-plus-seven-years term, or a 42-year one, whichever was longer. See also List of films in the public domain in the United States The Hirtle Chart illustrates the various possible copyright states for works published in the US in or later; works published before are all in the public domain. References External links Online database for all copyrights registered or renewed in 1978 or after. For works with copyrights from 1950 or after, the renewal will appear here. United States copyright law