Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning...
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Software copyright in China in Chinese Law means that a creator or other Obligee enjoys exclusive rights of the software under related copyright law. It...
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Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...
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legislation, administrative regulations, and decrees in the areas of trademark, copyright, and patent. China first began accepting foreign IP concepts when...
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Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual...
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Today music copyright is enforced in China. According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry 97% Chinese consumers were listening...
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Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form...
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(IP) of video games through copyright, patents, and trademarks, shares similar issues with the copyrightability of software as a relatively new area of...
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In the 2020s, the rapid advancement of deep learning-based generative artificial intelligence models raised questions about whether copyright infringement...
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the first software patents, establishing the principle that the computer program itself was unpatentable and therefore covered by copyright law, while...
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China International Copyright Expo is an annual event that brings companies and organizations, both governmental and independent, to China to discuss various...
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infringement. Copyright law protects unique expressions, while patent law protects inventions, which in the case of software, are algorithms; copyright cannot...
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may for instance be one of the following: Copyright infringement, encompassing for example a software copyright infringement Patent infringement Trademark...
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Public domain (redirect from Copyright-free)
Free software Freedom of panorama Limitations and exceptions to copyright List of copyright terms of countries List of films in the public domain in the...
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Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study,...
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are trained on and emulate copyrighted works of art. Generative AI is used across many industries. Examples include software development, healthcare, finance...
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Japanese copyright laws (著作権法, Chosakukenhō) consist of two parts: "Author's Rights" and "Neighbouring Rights". As such, "copyright" is a convenient collective...
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Video game piracy (category Copyright infringement of software)
the unauthorized copying and distributing of video game software, and is a form of copyright infringement. It is often cited as a major problem that video...
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Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states...
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Element (formerly Riot and Vector) is a free and open-source software instant messaging client implementing the Matrix protocol. Element supports end-to-end...
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area as software copyright where underlying source code as well as art and other assets qualify for copyright, but the gameplay does not. In the United...
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id Software LLC (/ɪd/) is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer...
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Outline of intellectual property (redirect from Outline of copyright law)
intellectual property rights include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, trade dress, and in some jurisdictions, trade secrets. These...
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device or "traffic" in software to do so. In 2010, in response to a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the U.S. Copyright Office explicitly recognized...
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Creative Commons license (category Public copyright licenses)
under copyright, including: books, plays, movies, music, articles, photographs, blogs, and websites. While software is also governed by copyright law and...
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above, China has had a history of a gray market of illegal imports and video game clones, both in hardware and software, as well as copyright theft/piracy...
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Reverse engineering (redirect from Reverse engineering of software)
years. Reverse engineering of software is protected in the US by the fair use exception in copyright law. The Samba software, which allows systems that do...
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Richard Stallman (category Copyright activists)
principles of copyright law to preserve the right to use, modify, and distribute free software. He is the main author of free software licenses which...
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Intellectual property (section Copyright)
types are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The modern concept of intellectual property developed in England in the 17th and 18th centuries...
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Open source license litigation (category Free and open-source software)
Katzer ("Jacobsen") addressed the extent to which a copyright holder of free public-use software can control the modification and use of their work by...
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