For most of the history of the United States, state and common law copyright protections coexisted with federal copyright laws. But the Copyright Act of 1976 amended Title 17 of the U.S. Code to preempt state laws that provide rights "equivalent to" rights granted under federal copyright law. Section 301 of the 1976 Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. §301) states, in pertinent part:
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