Flashcards: Copyright law

Substantial similarity, in US copyright law, is the standard used to determine whether a defendant has infringed the reproduction right of a copyright.

The Marrakesh VIP Treaty (formally the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities, colloquially MVT) is a treaty on copyright adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco, on 28 June 2013.

An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written work and can thus also be described as a writer (with any distinction primarily being an implication that an author is a writer of one or more major works, such as books or plays).

Copyleft (a play on the word copyright) is the practice of offering people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions of a work with the stipulation that the same rights be preserved in derivative works down the line.

Fair dealing is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on April 23rd, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright.

A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as an audio, video or image data.

The Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), adopted in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1952, is one of the two principal international conventions protecting copyright; the other is the Berne Convention.

Ripping is distinct from simple file copying, in that the source audio or video often isn't originally formatted for ease of use in a computer file system; ripping such data usually involves reformatting it and optionally compressing it during the extraction process.

Copyright term is the length of time copyright subsists in a work before it passes into the public domain.

The term collaborative writing refers to projects where written works are created by multiple people together (collaboratively) rather than individually.

In copyright law, related rights (or neighbouring rights) are the rights of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author.

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol).

Opposition to copyright or anti-copyright refers to a movement dissenting the nature of current copyright law, often focusing on perceived negative philosophical, economical or social effects of such laws.

Freedom of panorama (FOP) is an exception to the copyright laws of various jurisdictions that permits taking photographs and video footage and creating other images (such as paintings) of buildings and sometimes sculptures and other art works which are permanently located in a public place, without infringing on any copyright that may otherwise subsist in such works, and the publishing of such images.

Auteur theory (French: [otœʁ], author) is a theory originally of filmmaking that holds that a film reflects the director's personal creative vision.

"All rights reserved" is a copyright formality indicating that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law.

The sound recording copyright symbol, represented by the graphic symbol ℗ (a circled capital letter P), is the copyright symbol used to provide notice of copyright in a sound recording (phonogram) embodied in a phonorecord (LPs, audiotapes, cassettes, compact discs, etc.).

File sharing is the practice of distributing or providing access to digital media, such as computer programs, multimedia (audio, images and video), documents or electronic books.

Sweat of the brow is an intellectual property law doctrine, chiefly related to copyright law.

The threshold pledge or fund and release system is a way of making a fundraising pledge as a group of individuals, often involving charitable goals or financing the provision of a public good.

Paid content is content on the Internet – such as text, graphics, video and downloads – which is paid for.

Performing rights are the right to perform music in public.

Trusted Computing (TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group.

Software copyright is the extension of copyright law to machine-readable software.