A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative...

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...

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...

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...

The Copyright Act 1968 The Copyright Act of Canada Copyright Act, 2005. The Copyright Ordinance 1997 The Indian Copyright Act, 1957 The Copyright Act...

United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...

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...

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

United States Copyright Office (USCO), a part of the Library of Congress, is a United States government body that registers copyright claims, records...

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...

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...

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...

The copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain. In most of the world, this length of time...

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

program, or any other creative content for which there are very minimal copyright and other legal limitations on usage, modification and distribution. These...

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...

The copyright directive may refer to, in reverse chronological order, any of the following European Union directives: Copyright in the Digital Single...

Perpetual copyright, also known as indefinite copyright, is copyright that lasts indefinitely. Perpetual copyright arises either when a copyright has no...

Crown copyright is a type of copyright protection. It subsists in works of the governments of some Commonwealth realms and provides special copyright rules...

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

The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act...

The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power...

Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning...

NoCopyrightSounds, or NCS, is a British record label that releases royalty-free electronic dance music. Originally starting as a music promotion YouTube...

A copyright troll is a party (person or company) that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through strategic litigation, in a manner...

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

of the most important international copyright treaties include the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). The Berne Convention...

build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public...