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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
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Copyright is a type of
intellectual property that
gives its
owner the
exclusive right to make
copies of a
creative work,
usually for a
limited time. The...
- 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 infringement (at
times referred to as piracy) is the use of
works protected by
copyright law
without permission for a
usage where such permission...
- 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...
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Criticism of
copyright,
perhaps outright anti-
copyright sentiment, is a
dissenting view of the
current state of
copyright law or
copyright as a concept...
- 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...
- The
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998
United States copyright law that
implements two 1996
treaties of the
World Intellectual Property...
- The term "
copyright abolition movements"
refers to
movements to
abolish copyright,
specifically those that
espouse the
repeal of the
Statute of Anne and...
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Software copyright is the
application of
copyright law to machine-readable software.
While many of the
legal principles and
policy debates concerning...
