Well seeing as you live in texas, and that law relates to the uk... Im gonna take a wild guess and say that even though the law exists it may not be applicable to you... This was recently seen with scotland and the Giggs super injunction...

That doesnt mean however that there are not plenty of international agreements in place concerning copyrights... Some or all of which might apply... ;)

The scottish register of tartans act mentions that a woven sample MAY be sent with the application which is probably where the information you have got corrupted from....

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/20...artans/enacted

Internet copyright and public domain is a whole different mess however...