The United States Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to create copyright law under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, known as the Copyright Clause. United States copyright law was last generally revised by the Copyright Act of 1976, codified in Title 17 of the United States Code. In the United States, works published before January 1, 1926, are in the public domain. These exclusive rights are subject to a time limit, and generally expire 70 years after the author's death or 95 years after publication. With the stated purpose to promote art and culture, copyright law assigns a set of exclusive rights to authors: to make and sell copies of their works, to create derivative works, and to perform or display their works publicly. The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship".
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