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...

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...

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...

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...

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...

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...

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...

United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...

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...

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...

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...

A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective...

United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records...

book, a software program, or any other creative content unrestricted by copyright and other legal limitations on use. These are works or expressions which...

Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning...

The Copyright Act 1968 The Copyright Act of Canada Copyright Act, 2005. The Copyright Ordinance 1997 The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 The Copyright Act...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...

The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power...

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...

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...

Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs...

Crown copyright is a type of copyright protection. It subsists in works of the governments of some Commonwealth realms and provides special copyright rules...

NoCopyrightSounds, or NCS, is a British record label that releases royalty-free electronic dance music. Originally starting as a music promotion YouTube...

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...

copyright formalities include copyright registration, copyright renewal, copyright notice, and copyright deposit. Copyright formalities had certain benefits...

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...

The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection...

Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without...

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...

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...