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Copyright
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CopyrightCopyright is governed by the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 and is intended to protect against others copying and exploiting the form in which a copyright exists (a "work"). It does not however protect the idea behind the work. The copyright, whether it be in a literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work or mechanical rights (sound recordings, film etc.) is generally owned by the author unless he assigns the rights to another. In addition to works already created, the author can agree to assign the rights of works to be created in the future.
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Copyright
Copyright is governed by the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 and is intended to protect against others copying and exploiting the form in which a copyright exists (a "work"). It does not however protect the idea behind the work. The copyright, whether it be in a literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work or mechanical rights (sound recordings, film etc.) is generally owned by the author unless he assigns the rights to another. In addition to works already created, the author can agree to assign the rights of works to be created in the future.
Patent
1) Constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2) Contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer; securing to him for a limited time, therein expressed, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or discovery, on certain conditions, among which is the one of at once giving up his secret and making public his discovery or invention, and the manner of making and using the same, so that at the expiration of his privilege, it may become public property.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
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Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Copyhold
Estate in the English law. A copyhold estate is a parcel of a manor, held at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, by a grant from the lord, and admittance of the tenant, entered on the rolls of the manor court.
Copyright infringement
Unauthorized use of any of the holder's exclusive rights.
Copyright law
The particular area of the legal profession dealing with copyright, intellectual property and connected issues.
Copyright lawsuit
A lawsuit filed because copyright has been (allegedly) violated.
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Copartnership
This word is frequently used in the sense of partnership.
Co-plaintiff
One who is plaintiff in an action with another.
Copulative term
One which is placed between two or more others to join them together: the word and is frequently used for this purpose.
Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Copyhold
Estate in the English law. A copyhold estate is a parcel of a manor, held at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, by a grant from the lord, and admittance of the tenant, entered on the rolls of the manor court.
Copyright
Copyright infringement
Unauthorized use of any of the holder's exclusive rights.
Coram
In the presence of; before.
Coram non judice
(United Kingdom) Before one who is not a judge.
Cord
Measures. A cord of wood must, when the wood is piled close, measure eight feet by four, and the wood must be four feet long. There are various local regulations in our principal cities as to the manner in which wood shall be measured and sold.
Co-respondent
The individual who is targeted as the partner in an adulterous relationship.
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Copyright
Copyright is governed by the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988 and is intended to protect against others copying and exploiting the form in which a copyright exists (a "work"). It does not however protect the idea behind the work. The copyright, whether it be in a literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work or mechanical rights (sound recordings, film etc.) is generally owned by the author unless he assigns the rights to another. In addition to works already created, the author can agree to assign the rights of works to be created in the future.
Patent
1) Constrction. That which is open or manifest. 2) Contracts. A patent for an invention is a giant made by the government of the United States to the inventor of any new or useful art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement in any art, machine, manufacture or composition of matter not known or used by others before his or their discovery or invention thereof, and not, at the time of his application for a patent, in public use or on sale, with his consent or allowance, as the inventor or discoverer; securing to him for a limited time, therein expressed, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others to be used, the said invention or discovery, on certain conditions, among which is the one of at once giving up his secret and making public his discovery or invention, and the manner of making and using the same, so that at the expiration of his privilege, it may become public property.
Assigns
Contracts. Those to whom rights have been transmitted by particular title, such as sale, gift, legacy, transfer, or cession.
Assign
To give, to transfer responsibility, to another. The assignee (sometimes also called "assigns") is the person who receives the right or property being given and the assignor is the person giving.
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Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Copyhold
Estate in the English law. A copyhold estate is a parcel of a manor, held at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, by a grant from the lord, and admittance of the tenant, entered on the rolls of the manor court.
Copyright infringement
Unauthorized use of any of the holder's exclusive rights.
Copyright law
The particular area of the legal profession dealing with copyright, intellectual property and connected issues.
Copyright lawsuit
A lawsuit filed because copyright has been (allegedly) violated.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Copartnership
This word is frequently used in the sense of partnership.
Co-plaintiff
One who is plaintiff in an action with another.
Copulative term
One which is placed between two or more others to join them together: the word and is frequently used for this purpose.
Copy
A copy is a true transcript of an original writing.
Copyhold
Estate in the English law. A copyhold estate is a parcel of a manor, held at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor, by a grant from the lord, and admittance of the tenant, entered on the rolls of the manor court.
Copyright
Copyright infringement
Unauthorized use of any of the holder's exclusive rights.
Coram
In the presence of; before.
Coram non judice
(United Kingdom) Before one who is not a judge.
Cord
Measures. A cord of wood must, when the wood is piled close, measure eight feet by four, and the wood must be four feet long. There are various local regulations in our principal cities as to the manner in which wood shall be measured and sold.
Co-respondent
The individual who is targeted as the partner in an adulterous relationship.
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