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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 gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time. The...
- States Copyright Office handles copyright registration, recording of copyright transfers, and other administrative aspects of copyright law. US copyright law...
- Copyright infringement (colloquially referred to as piracy) is the unlawful use of works protected by copyright law without permission for a usage where...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 acknowledgement as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long...
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...
- Crown copyright is a form of copyright claim used by the governments of a number of Commonwealth realms. It provides special copyright rules for the Crown...
- Criticism of copyright, perhaps outright anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept...
