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copyright law
[ kop-ee-rahyt law ]
noun
- the body of laws and regulations that govern the exclusive rights of an author or creator to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit their literary, musical, or artistic work. copyright ( def 1 ).
This website will not be held responsible for member-posted information that may violate copyright law.
U.S. copyright law protects photos, and a patchwork of state laws limits the use of your name or likeness without permission.
Example Sentences
More than 1,000 musicians - including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn and Kate Bush - are to release a silent album in protest at the UK government's planned changes to copyright law, which they say would make it easier for AI companies to train models using copyrighted work without a licence.
In January, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the proposed changes to copyright law could allow "rip off" technology that might make it impossible for musicians and artists to make a living.
I was lucky that the BBC legal department were able to use copyright law to have the website taken down, but I've been told another website is likely to pop up soon enough, and getting ads taken down from X has become more difficult since it changed ownership.
"All of these things work without going and changing copyright law and ruining the livelihoods of the country's creatives," he argues.
Baroness Kidron, a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, is also strongly against removing copyright law for AI.
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