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    A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective...
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  • copyright formalities include copyright registration, copyright renewal, copyright notice, and copyright deposit. Copyright formalities had certain benefits...
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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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  • Crown copyright is a type of copyright protection. It subsists in works of the governments of some Commonwealth realms and provides special copyright rules...
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    book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use. These are works or expressions which...
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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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  • Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs...
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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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    NoCopyrightSounds, or NCS, is a British record label that releases royalty-free electronic dance music. Originally starting as a music promotion YouTube...
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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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    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 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 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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    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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    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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  • threshold of originality is a concept in copyright law that is used to assess whether a particular work can be copyrighted. It is used to distinguish works that...
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    memes constitutes copyright infringement. Fair use is a defence under U.S. copyright law which protects work made using other copyrighted works. Section...
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