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. §...
intellectual property
commerce
Commerce refers generally to the activity of exchanging products, goods, and services for financial gain. The word commerce usually is used to mean economic activity broadly on a national or other large scale. Commerce can be used in many...
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....compilation
Under the Copyright Act, a compilation is a "work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original...
compulsory license
Compulsory license is a statutorily created license that allows the use of copyrighted materials without the explicit permission of the copyright owner. In exchange, a royalty is paid to the copyright holder. In cases of copyright concerning...
computer and internet fraud
Computer and internet fraud entails the criminal use of a computer or the Internet and can take many different forms. While some argue that “hacking” is a neutral term (see United States v. Thompson (2022)) illegal hacking is when a...
Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act
Title III of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act, broadened Section 117 of the Copyright Act to allow third-party maintenance organizations to used software licensed to a computer’s owner or lessee...
confusingly similar
Confusingly similar, is a standard test that is applied to see whether a potential trademark conflicts with an existing trademark for the trademark registration purpose.
An example of confusingly similar in trademark law is...
contributory infringement
Overview
Contributory infringement is a form of secondary liability for direct infringement of a patent, copyright, or trademark. It is a means by which a person may be held liable for infringement even though they did not actually engage in...
cookie
A cookie is data created by an internet server while browsing a website that is sent to a web browser. The browser stores the information in a text file, and re-sends that information to the server each time the browser accesses the server....