The first copyright statute of the newly formed United States of America is enacted into law. Proposals submitted by James Madison and Charles Pinckney at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 are the origins of the Copyright Clause in the United States Constitution, which allows for the granting of copyrights and patents.
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