intellectual property

Copyright notice is a legal form of notice to inform users of the copyright ownership of published works of the basic requirements.

The Copyright Office serves as the main administrator of copyrights in the United States; organized as a department of the Library of Congress.

A copyright owner is the entity that owns the exclusive rights comprised within a copyright. Copyright owners have specific rights, such as reproduction of the work, distribution of the work, production of products deriving from the work or display of the work.

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Copyright registration is the process for filing a copyright with the U.S. Copyright Office created by § 408 of the Copyright Act of 1976.

Cross Licensing refers to the cross-license agreement between patentees, entered into for purposes of avoiding litigation concerning conflicting patents. It helps preserve the financial incentives for inventors to commercialize their existing innovations and undertake new, potentially patentable research.

Cybersquatting occurs when a person other than the owner of a well-known trademark registers that trademark as an Internet domain name and then attempts to profit from it.

A database is a compilation of information arranged and stored systematically to facilitate access and retrieval. Today, databases exist most commonly in electronic form. In Myspace, Inc. v. Graphon Corp., a court in California defined database as “a collection of data with a given structure that can be stored and retrieved.”

Derivative is a financial instrument whose value depends on the market value of some underlying asset.  The parties to a derivative contract essentially make a bet on the value of the underlying asset.

Derivative work refers to a copyrighted work that comes from another copyrighted work. Copyrights allow their owners to decide how their works can be used, including creating new derivative works off of the original product. Derivative works can be created with the permission of the copyright owner or from works in the public domain. In order to receive copyright protection, a derivative work must add a sufficient amount of change to the original work.

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The nature of a statement that claims to describe reality. A descriptive theory is one that claims to describe how things really are, as opposed to how they should be. See also: prescriptive (contrast).