IP Word of the Day

Word of the Day: Free Style

Free style
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Emerged in 19th- 20th century, this form of dance was structured to create a harmonious personality which included features such as physical and spiritual freedom.

Word of the Day: Copyright Levy

Printer
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A copyright (blank tape) levy is the remuneration paid to authors and other rights holders for the copying of their works and other subject matter (e.g. music recordings) for personal use (private copying).

Word of the Day: Idea

Idea
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IDEAS are not protected under copyright law so that they can be used for the creation of works. When an idea is materialized to a work (when it has a specific form) that is original, then this work is protected under copyright law.

Word of the Day: Replica

Mirrored car
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Replicas are very good or exact copies of something. Do you know that there is even a scaled-down replica of the Eiffel Tower?

Word of the Day: AI ART

Robot hand
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Artificial intelligence Art refers to any artwork created with the assistance of artificial intelligence. It includes works created autonomously by AI systems and works that are a collaboration between a human and AI system.

Word of the Day: Performing Arts

Musical
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The performing arts are arts such as music, dance, and drama which are performed for an audience. The history of music and dance date to pre-historic times.

Word of the Day: Magnum Opus

The Creation of Adam
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Magnum opus, from Latin, great work, or "masterpiece", in its modern use menas a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship.Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and craf.

Word of the Day: Copyleft

Copyleft
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Copyleft is the practice of granting the right to freely distribute and modify intellectual property with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works created from that property. Copyleft in the form of licenses can be used to maintain copyright conditions for works ranging from computer software, to documents, art, scientific discoveries and even certain patents.

An early use of the word copyleft was in Li-Chen Wang's Palo Alto Tiny BASIC's distribution notice "@COPYLEFT ALL WRONGS RESERVED" in June 1976. Tiny BASIC was not distributed under any formal form of copyleft distribution terms, but it was presented in a context where source code was being shared and modified.