Labels:book | daily | reckoner | sky | tree | windowpane OCR: would be secured. J Madison The Federalist No. 43. at 309 Wright pa 1961) Indeed. contrary t petitioner's contentio, the 1976 Act in general reflects congressional desire expand the protecti ions afforded creators and their assignees and 1 not neutral determination of the scope of limits of copyrights. The Register af Copyrights a the time of the 1976 enactment described the Act "an author's bill, thus acknowledging Congress' pra enforcement purpose Barbara Ringer Register Copyrights, Remarks "Program on the 1976 Copyright Act (New York City May 1977)). The pro-copyright, pro enforcement orientation of the 1976 Act 15 perhaps best in the Act extension of the copyright term from 56 years 75 years for works copyrighted before 1978, and its establishment of copyright term pasrq on the life of ...