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...

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 right...

Copyright can be used to enact censorship. Critics of copyright argue that copyright has been abused to suppress free speech, as well as criticism, business...

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

of their having been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright...

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YouTube copyright strike is a copyright policing practice used by YouTube for the purpose of managing copyright infringement and complying with the Digital...

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

Literary criticism Art criticism Film criticism Theatre criticism Criticism of religion Criticism of science Self-criticism Social criticism "Criticism". Cambridge...

others. The best-known types are patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The modern concept of intellectual property developed in England...

holders. Copyright abolition Copyright alternatives Criticism of copyright Free-culture movement Freedom of information Information wants to be free Public-domain-equivalent...

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

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...

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...

infringement or violation of an intellectual property right. There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks...

Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in...

graphics, images, words or symbols, or a combination of such, to signify the distinctiveness or source of a product or service. In many countries, well-known...

do not operate under their registered company name. The term for this type of alternative name is an "alternative" business name. Registering the alternative...

40 Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) Review and criticism (s41) "Reporting the news" (s42) Legal advice (although the federal Crown is deemed to own copyright in...

including content issues, lack of close captioning and pricing. This article provides an overview of key criticisms the company has faced. In October...

use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended...

In law, misappropriation is the unauthorized use of another's name, likeness, identity, property, discoveries, inventions, etc. without that person's permission...

on secret information that does not expire as would a patent or copyright. The lack of formal protection associated with registered intellectual property...

Criticism of capitalism is a critique of political economy that involves the rejection of, or dissatisfaction with the economic system of capitalism and...

Various copyright alternatives in an alternative compensation systems (ACS) have been proposed as ways to allow the widespread reproduction of digital...

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Copyright misuse is an equitable defence to copyright infringement in the United States based upon the doctrine of unclean hands. The misuse doctrine provides...

fixed in a medium.Two of the most important international copyright treaties include the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). The...

orphan work is a copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable. Sometimes the names of the originators...