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    A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives the creator of an original work, or another right holder, the exclusive and legally secured...
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  • The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound...
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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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    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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    Public domain (redirect from Copyright-free)
    been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore...
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  • The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...
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    United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...
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  • Copyright abolition is a movement to abolish copyright and all subsequent laws made in its support. The notion of anti-copyright combines a group of ideas...
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    Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition...
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  • Copyrights can either be licensed or assigned by the owner of the copyright. A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting...
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  • The copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain. In most of the world, this length of time...
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    Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept. Critics often...
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    those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the definition of free cultural work. In most countries, the Berne Convention grants copyright holders...
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    United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records...
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  • The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power...
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  • The Copyright Act 1957 as amended governs the subject of copyright law in India. The Act is applicable from 21 January 1958. The history of copyright law...
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  • material and relates to copyright law. Streaming and downloading can involve making copies of works that infringe on copyrights or other rights, and organizations...
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    NCS (formerly NoCopyrightSounds) is a British record label that releases royalty-free electronic dance music. Originally starting as a music promotion...
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  • work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States...
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  • The Copyright Act 1968 The Copyright Act of Canada Copyright Act, 2005. The Copyright Ordinance 1997 The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 The Copyright Act...
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    The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...
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    The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act...
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    A copyright troll is a party (person or company) that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through strategic litigation, in a manner...
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    The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection...
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    The purpose of copyright registration is to place on record a verifiable account of the date and content of the work in question, so that in the event...
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  • 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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  • Most films are subject to copyright, but those listed here are believed to be in the public domain in the United States. This means that no government...
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    Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without...
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    The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several...
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  • use or redistribution of software. Under United States copyright law, all software is copyright protected, in both source code and object code forms, unless...
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