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Parent topics
- law [r]: Body of rules of conduct of binding legal force and effect, prescribed, recognized, and enforced by a controlling authority. [e]
- Law of the United States [r]: The system of law as it has evolved under the United States Constitution through laws enacted by Congress and treaties to which the U.S. is a party. [e]
- intellectual property [r]: A term referring to information that can be protected by patents, trademarks, trade secret practices and copyrights. [e]
- copyright [r]: An exclusive property grant on creative works granted to authors of those works for a period set by law. [e]
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Other related topics
- Fair use [r]: A limitation of United States federal copyright law providing that a greater societal good is achieved when limited material from copyrighted works can be used without prior permission of the copyright holder. [e]
- Public good [r]: Products and services that can only be collectively financed because it is not feasible to require individual users to pay for using them. [e]
