The phrase "act as copyright" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a role or function related to copyright, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "The document should act as copyright for the original work created by the author."
Alternatives: "serve as copyright" or "function as copyright".
What if I think it's beautiful and I put it on the wall, and have no idea it's actually a visual representation of a hash of a hash of a torrent containing a compressed file containing the hashes of files that act as pointers to copyrighted information?
In the case of US copyright law, Prince would probably be fighting to defend his work using something called the fair use doctrine under Section 107 of the 1976 Copyright Act (as he did during his previous court battle with Cariou).
Helprin is at pains to deny in the book that he advocated perpetual copyright in the op-ed, but since the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended copyright to seventy years after the author's death, for Congress to take another shot at it "as far as it can throw" would mean extending virtual perpetuity.
British copyright law can be found in The Copyright Act 1956, The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003, and relevant case law interpretations.
The law has been nicknamed the "Instagram act", as much of the wording was unfavourably compared to Instagram's failed stealth copyright swoop.
How do the laws governing patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and sui generis intellectual property rights act as an incentive, a disincentive, or a neutral factor in determining the planning, content, and progress of genetics and genomics research and development programs?
The company requested a temporary restraining order for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and facilitating copyright infringement, such as downloading pirated games.
