...Section 301(a) of the 1976 Act states that: On and after January 1, 1978, all legal or equitable rights that are equivalent to any of the exclusive rights...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106 . . . are governed exclusively by this title. Thereafter, no person is entitled to any such right or...

...the common law or statute of any State with respect to: (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and deceptive trade...

...arising from undertakings commenced before January 1, 1967 ; (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and deceptive trade...

...arising from undertakings commenced before January 1,1967; (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and deceptive trade...

...arising from undertakings commenced before January 1, 1969; (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and deceptive trade...

...301 provides that on and after January 1, 1967, all rights in the nature of copyright in works that come within the subject matter of copyright as specified by Sections 102 and 103, whether created before or after that date and whether published or unpublished, are governed by the...

...commenced before January 1, 1969; (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of th e exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and deceptive trade...

...1978. After that date, all righto within the general scope of copyright as specified in 17 USC sec. 106 in works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible...within the subject matter of copyright as specified in 17 USC sees. 102 and 103 (which includes literary works), whether created before or after Jan. 1,...

...torts in subsection (b) (3). The proposed amendment : "(3) Activities violating rights that are not equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the...general scope of copyright as specified by section 106, including l>reaches of contract, breaches of trust, invasion of privacy, defamation, and Cdeceptive...

...arising from undertakings commenced before January 1, ]077; (3) activities violating rights that are not equivalent, to any of the exclusive rights within...general scope of copyright as specified by section 1(V>. including breaches of contract, breaches of trust, violation of trade secrets. misappropriation*,...