The copyright performance of a play was a first public performance in the United Kingdom, staged purely for the purpose of securing the author's copyright...

over derivative works, distribution, public performance, and moral rights such as attribution. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that...

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...

Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) is a British music copyright collective. It is a private limited company that is registered in the UK. PPL was founded...

A copyright collective (also known as a copyright society, copyright collecting agency, licensing agency or copyright collecting society or collective...

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

called copyright collectives or copyright collecting agencies. A copyright collective is more general than a PRO as it is not limited to performances and...

(TRIPS). Initially, India was not a member of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT) but subsequently entered...

Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept. Critics often...

The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), also known as the CDPA, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that received royal assent...

provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works; that is, they have not waived any such right. Copyright law in...

derivative works were made subject to copyright and copyright now covers a wide range of works, including maps, performances, paintings, photographs, sound recordings...

first colonial copyright statute in 1832 but was subject to imperial copyright law established by Britain until 1921. Current copyright law was established...

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

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property...

Kingdom, a copyright is an intangible property right subsisting in certain qualifying subject matter. Copyright law is governed by the Copyright, Designs...

work of the United States government is defined by the United States copyright law, as "a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States...

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...

owners of copyright in sound recordings did not enjoy any rights of public performance but after the amendment a limited right of public performance by means...

The copyright law of the European Union is the copyright law applicable within the European Union. Copyright law is largely harmonized in the Union, although...

The WIPO Copyright and Performances and Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act, is a part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 U.S. law...

is a list of international and national copyright collection societies and companies, also called "copyright collectives". Association of International...

in their efforts, over the next decade, to control the American performance copyrights to Pirates and their other operas. Fiction and plays about pirates...

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a United States copyright law and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several...

recordings of audio performances. The term covers recording as well as post-recording mixes and production edits: masters are the copyrighted recordings that...

Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (WIPO Copyright Treaty or WCT) is an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states...

actress Minnie Maddern Fiske when it opened on 2 March 1897. A copyright performance was given at St James's Theatre in London on the same date. It was...

The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act – also known as the Copyright Term Extension Act, Sonny Bono Act, or (derisively) the Mickey Mouse Protection...

Copyright can be used to enact censorship. Critics of copyright argue that copyright has been abused to suppress free speech, as well as criticism, business...

performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times. — 17 USC 101 The US Copyright Office...