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Glossary Terms Related To Publication Title & Copyright Topics

Trade Dress

Definition:
The totality of elements in which a product or service is packaged or presented, such as the shape and appearance of a product or container, or the cover of a book or magazine.

Good Will

Definition:
The value of a business or of a line of goods or services that reflects commercial reputation. A business with a well-established good will could see all of its tangible assets destroyed, yet still own its reputation, its good will.

Publication

Definition:
The distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public.

Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial Designs

Definition:
The Locarno Agreement establishes an international classification system for industrial designs which consists of 32 classes and 223 subclasses based on different types of products.

Universal Copyright Convention

Definition:
The UCC was created in 1952 through UNESCO to provide an international multilateral copyright treaty; the UCC remains significant in the countries that are UCC but not Berne Union members.

End User Piracy

Definition:
When a business or agency purchases a limited number of licenses to use software, and then makes unauthorized copies for use by others in the organization.



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Copyright News

Study Group Convenes to Discuss Exceptions to Copyright Law
The U.S. Copyright Office will then hold public hearings before submitting recommendations to the U.S. Congress.

Final Defendant Pleads Guilty in Largest CD Manufacturing Piracy Scheme Uncovered in U.S.
The FBI estimates that approximately 494,000 pirated music, software, and movie Cd's, and DVDs, and more than 5,500 stampers were seized during those raids.

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First-To-File

Definition:
The first person/entity to file an application for a patent receives the patent no matter who was the first to invent the invention.

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