costs, by establishing at least one registry where copyright owners
could be identified.
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+<indexterm><primary>Berlin Act (1908)</primary></indexterm>
<para>
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As I described in chapter 10, formalities in copyright law were
removed in 1976, when Congress followed the Europeans by abandoning
any formal requirement before a copyright is granted.<footnote><para>
-<indexterm><primary>Berlin Act (1908)</primary></indexterm>
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Until the 1908 Berlin Act of the Berne Convention, national copyright
legislation sometimes made protection depend upon compliance with