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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
- Copyright is a type of intellectual property that grants the creator of an original creative work the exclusive legal right to determine whether and under...
- Copyright infringement (colloquially referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission for a usage where such permission...
- having been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by copyright, and are therefore in the...
- States Copyright Office handles copyright registration, recording of copyright transfers, and other administrative aspects of copyright law. US copyright law...
- 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 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...
- work of the United States government, as defined by the United States copyright law, is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government...
- Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They also cover copying in electronic form...
- Convention in most countries by default grants copyright holders monopolistic control over their creations, copyright content must be explicitly declared free...
- sought by the copyright owner. The result is an agile, low-overhead and low-cost copyright-management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees...
