Across
- 2. He submitted a provision to the Framers of the U.S. Constitution to “secure to literary authors their copyrights for a limited time” (last name)
- 4. This famous green puppet was registered as a sculptural work in 1955 (three words)
- 5. In the early decades of motion pictures, copyright law did not yet protect them; so, filmmakers would register their works as a series of these
- 8. This amendment specifically added motion pictures as a category of protected works
- 10. The first work registered for federal copyright protection (three words)
- 11. The earliest surviving copyright deposit for a motion picture depicts a man doing this
- 12. Historically all-Black basketball team that travels around the world every year
- 13. President that signed an amendment to copyright law extending protection to photographs (last name)
- 16. A work that is no longer protected by copyright (two words)
- 17. President that signed the International Copyright Act of 1891 (last name)
- 18. President that signed into law the Copyright Act of 1790 (last name)
- 19. Founder of American modern dance and the first to register a choreographic work as a drama in 1952 (two words)
Down
- 1. Author of Alexander Hamilton, the comprehensive biography from which the musical Hamilton is derived (two words)
- 3. Mark Twain’s birth name (two words)
- 6. This epistolary novel inspired two major derivative works, the 1985 movie and the 2004 hit Broadway musical (three words)
- 7. A __ work is based on or derived from one or more existing works
- 9. Hundreds of derivative works spawned from this famous video game, which was created in 1985 (two words)
- 14. Architect who designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, here in Washington, DC
- 15. John Williams wrote the original score for this iconic film, which was registered in 1977 (two words)