access
Access is the right to use, communicate, or approach something or someone. Some common usages of the term “access” in a legal sense include:
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author
An author is a person who creates, comes up with, or gives existence to something. Most people think of an author as an individual who wrote a paper, book, poem, letter, or any kind of literary work. If the work was made for hire, the employer or commissioning party is considered the author of the work.
Berne Convention
The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is an international set of laws that protects copyrighted works from infringement across the member countries. The convention was created in Berne, Switzerland in 1886 with 10 European member countries. The United States became a party to the Berne Convention in 1989. Today, the Berne Convention has over 180 member countries and city-states.
civil case
A civil case is a private, non-criminal lawsuit, usually involving private property rights, including respecting rights stated under the Constitution or under federal or state law.
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claim
A claim is a set of operative facts creating a right enforceable in court. The term claim is generally synonymous with the phrase cause of action, though some contexts prefer to use one of the terms over the other. For example, in the field of insurance, you generally file a claim for coverage under a policy rather than file a cause of action for coverage under a policy.
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claims
Claims are usually statements of something true in a case, typically without providing proof.
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clean room
Clean room is a method of developing proprietary material in which a development team works in an isolated environment to ensure that the work is authentic and is not copied. The purpose is to provide evidence that similarities to others works is because of legitimate reasons and not copying.
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collective work
Collective work is defined as a work, such as an issue of a magazine, an anthology or an encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a whole, see 17 U.S.C. §101.
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commercial exploitation
Commercial exploitation is a term referring to all activities used to benefit commercially from one's property.
- Examples include making property, selling it, offering it for sale, or licensing its appropriation or use.
Whether a party can commercially exploit their property depends on what kind of property it is and in what manner that property is owned.
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