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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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may for instance be one of the following: Copyright infringement, encompassing for example a software copyright infringement Patent infringement Trademark...
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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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laws, since they are trained on copyrighted works. Generative AI is used across many industries. Examples include software development, healthcare, finance...
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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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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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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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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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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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Software Foundation, explains the author's philosophical position on the Free Software movement, deals with the topics of software ethics, copyright and...
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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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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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Tencent QQ (category Android (operating system) software)
Tencent QQ (Chinese: 腾讯QQ), also known as QQ, is an instant messaging software service and web portal developed by the Mainland Chinese technology company...
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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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artistic works under Australian law. The scope of copyright in Australia is defined in the Copyright Act 1968 (as amended), which applies the national...
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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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Copyright Act (DMCA), which could be applied to video games. Cheating in esports Cheating in video games Gaming etiquette Metagame Warden (software)...
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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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