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This Cumulative Supplement is designed to complement the book by providing access to a variety of materials useful to students and professors alike. Together with the Ninth Edition of Copyright Law, this Cumulative Supplement provide the most comprehensive, up-to-date materials on copyright available in legal education today. For example: Part One contains the Copyright Clause of the U.S Constitution, the current version of Title 17, relevant provisions from Title 18 and the Copyright Act of 1909. Part Two provides a rich assortment of international materials, including the Berne Convention and the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, NAFTA, GATT/TRIPS, the treaty texts adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization in December 1996, and the European Union Internet Copyright Directive - plus materials relating to copyright in the networked information environment. Part Three collects excerpted legislative histories of interest to teachers and students of modern copyright law. Part Four offers updated text and case law materials, including opinions newly released or revised by the courts, such as ABC v. Aereo, as well as additional and substitutional text notes updating developments since publication of the Ninth Edition.