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Copyright

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 work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form.

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Overview

History

Obtaining protection

Enforcement

Rights granted

Limitations and exceptions

Transfer, assignment and licensing

Criticism

Public domain

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Copyright

Nodes219
Edges218
Triples372
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009132
Components1

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Copyright

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related to External links · 50
Copyright → Archived, August, AuteurMIT OpenCourseWare, Berne Convention, CongressUKCopyright, Copyright Law Free, Copyright Law In, Copyright Office, Copyright Practices, CortexA Bibliography, Country List List, David Newhoff, December, Detailed, Digital Citizens Alliance, Droit, Explained In One Page, Frank, IAP, Independent Activities Period
related to Free licenses · 19
Copyright → BSD, CC, Common, Creative Commons, Debian Free Software Guidelines, Definition, Founded, Free, Free Cultural Works, Free Software Definition, Further, GNU General Public License, Hal Abelson, James Boyle, Lawrence Lessig, Open Source Definition, These, To, What
related to Transfer, assignment and licensing · 18
Copyright → Australian Copyright Act, Copyright Office, For, In, Information, Internet, No, Non-exclusive, Office's, Some, The, They, Thus, Transfers, Under, US, US Copyright Act, While
related to Conception · 17
Copyright → Anne, Berne Convention, British, Convention, England, English Parliament, In, Licensing, Press Act, Scotland, Stationers, Stationers' Company, The, The Berne International Copyright, The Copyright Act, The Statute, US
related to Copyright notice · 17
Copyright → All, Almost, As, Before, Berne Convention, Berne Convention Implementation Act, Copr, Copyright Act, COPYRIGHT SIGN, However, In, Internet, Several, SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT, The, Unicode, United States
see also · 16
Copyright → Adelphi CharterArtificial, AllianceCopyright, Book, Commons, Copyright ActsList, Copyright Day, CRCA, CreativityCopyright, Digital, Digital Single Market, European Union, Law, List, PartyPrinting, Remedy Clarification Act, United StatesCopyright
related to Continental law · 15
Copyright → After, Although, Authors, Creator's, Eckhard Höffner, English, European, French, German, German Urheberrecht, Germany, In, Napoleonic, The, This
related to International copyright treaties · 15
Copyright → As, Berne Convention, Buenos Aires Convention, Designs, Latin American, Patents Act, Soviet Union, Specially, The, The Berne Convention, The UK, The United States, The Universal Copyright Convention, This, Under
related to Criticism · 14
Copyright → Concerns, Discussions, Free Culture, Good Copy Bad Copy, In Europe, Lawrence Lessig, Lessig, Particularly, Pirate Parties, Remix Manifesto, RiP, Some, The, This
related to Fixing · 14
Copyright → Article, Australia, Berne Convention, Canada, Canadian, For, France, Section, Similarly, Some, Spain, The Berne Convention, The United States, US

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work rights works states law united may use right countries convention public moral berne holder act property authors us laws

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Copyrightis atype of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy0.90text
Copyrightis aperson who created the work i.e. the author0.90text
Copyrightis alife of the author plus either 50 or 70 years0.90text
attribution.Copyrights can be granted by public lawinstance ofand moral rights0.80text
are in that case consideredinstance ofand moral rights0.80text
sound recordingsinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
filmsinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
photographsinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
softwareinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
and architecture.National copyrightsOften seen as the first real copyright lawinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
the 1709 British Statute of Anne gave authorsinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text
the publishers to whom they did chose to license their worksinstance ofbut also forms of creative work0.80text

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