5 of the Convention expressly forbids any member country to require formal action for copyright protection. Countries and respective copyright terms, with...

territory of that specific jurisdiction. Copyrights of this type vary by country; many countries, and sometimes a large group of countries, have made...

Terms of service (also known as terms of use and terms and conditions, commonly abbreviated as TOS or ToS, ToU or T&C) are the legal agreements between...

The rule of the shorter term, also called the comparison of terms, is a provision in international copyright treaties. The provision allows that signatory...

from individual copyright holders and negotiate terms with them. Copyright societies negotiate prices and create tariffs on behalf of the authors that...

general, UK law recognised the copyright laws of foreign countries (i.e., non-Commonwealth countries) only if the other country was a party to the Berne Convention...

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

establish minimum terms for copyrights, but these only apply to the signatory countries, and individual countries may grant longer terms than those set out...

A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn...

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...

Since copyright terms vary from country to country, the copyright status of a work may not be the same in all countries. With the exception of Belarus...

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...

extended copyright terms in the United States in 1998. It is one of several acts extending the terms of copyright. Following the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright...

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

aspects of the Berne Convention but still wished to participate in some form of multilateral copyright protection. These states included countries such as...

the public domain in countries with shorter copyright terms. The EU Information Society Directive modified the term of protection of phonograms, calculating...

for" a copyright in countries adhering to the convention. It also enforces a requirement that countries recognize rights held by the citizens of all other...

uses this expression. EU19 includes the countries in the EU15 as well as the Central European member countries of the OECD: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland...

An official translation is available. It should not be confused with copyright (exclusive rights to copy granted to distributors), and is more akin to...

This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography...

The Copyright law of the Soviet Union went through several major revisions during its existence. The first Socialist copyright law was passed in 1925....

has its own Crown copyright regulations. There are therefore no common regulations that apply to all or a number of those countries. There are some considerations...

This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of copyright law. In the United States Constitution, the Copyright Clause in Article...

editors as copyright traps to reveal subsequent plagiarism or copyright infringement. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious...

The unfriendly countries list (Russian: Список недружественных стран, romanized: Spisok nedruzhestvennykh stran) is a list of countries published by the...

Whether or not a work is copyrighted, and the duration of the copyright may differ between countries, and may also be limited by country specific exceptions...

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

with other countries.: 288,289  The Chace Act of 1891 enforced copyright of all foreign countries who reciprocally protected US copyright.: 291  Various...

The copyright law of South Africa governs copyright, the right to control the use and distribution of artistic and creative works, in the Republic of South...

The Copyright Act 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 46), also known as the Imperial Copyright Act 1911, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) which...