The Stamp Act (March 22, 1765) - Britain sets a tax that requires a stamp on all public documents like newspapers or legal documents. The colonists did not like having this tax placed on them. This led to unrest in the colonies and the Stamp Act Congress (October 1765). The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770 - 5 Boston colonists are shot by British troops.
copyright definition. A grant of an exclusive right to produce or sell a book, motion picture, work of art, musical composition, software, or similar product during a specified period of time.
| Back to Table of Contents |. In Australia, copyright law is contained in the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968 (Copyright Act). A simple definition of copyright is that it is a bunch of rights in certain creative works such as text, artistic works, music, computer programs, sound recordings and films.