In legal usage, piracy can mean either:
1) crimes such as robbery, kidnapping, or similar violent and destructive activities on the high seas. The trial and punishment of such pirates may be under international law, or under the laws of the...
copyright law
plagiarism
Plagiarism is the act of taking a person’s original work and presenting it as if it was one’s own. Plagiarism is not illegal in the United States in most situations. Instead it is considered a violation of honor or ethics codes and can result...
private property
Private property refers to the ownership of property by private parties - essentially anyone or anything other than the government. Private property may consist of real estate, buildings, objects, intellectual property (copyright, patent,...
property
Property is anything (items or attributes/tangible or intangible) that can be owned by a person or entity. Property is the most complete right to something; the owner can possess, use, transfer or dispose of it. According to California Civil...
public domain
The public domain includes creative works and knowledge that are no longer protected by a copyright, trademark, or patent. These works are considered part of the public domain because their legal protections have expired, been forfeited, or...
publication
A publication is the act of making something known to the public at large to inspect or scrutinize. This is done to convey knowledge or give notice.
In the context of copyright law, publication is an important concept and...
publish
To publish means to make a publication; to give publicity to a work; to make a work available to the public in physical or electronic form; to circulate or distribute a work to the general public.
In the context of...
published work
The term “published work” is often used in copyright law. For works created on or after January 1, 1978, under Title 17 of U.S. Code §101, both published and unpublished works are copyright-protectable. Published works refers to works that...
royalty
Royalty is a compensation to the owner of intellectual property or natural resources for the right to use or profit from the property. Often, owners of intellectual property such as music or books contract with companies to sell and...
rule of doubt
The Rule of Doubt is a U.S. Copyright Office rule that presumptively accepts copyright registration of a claim containing software object code, even though the Office cannot verify whether the software object code contains copyrightable work...