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Copyright
Copyright Cop"y*right, n.
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to
print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively
of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts,
engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in
books.
Note: In the United States a copyright runs for the term of
twenty-eight years, with right of renewal for fourteen
years on certain conditions.
Copyright
Copyright Cop"y*right`, v. t.
To secure a copyright on.
Meaning of Copyright from wikipedia
- 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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Copyright infringement (at
times referred to as piracy) is the use of
works protected by
copyright without permission for a
usage where such permission...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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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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...
