performance right. A copyright holder’s exclusive right to recite, play, act, show, or otherwise render the protected work publicly, whether directly or by technological means (as by broadcasting the work on television). • Every public performance of a copyrighted work requires authorization from the copyright owner or its representative, unless a statutory ephemeral-recording exemption applies. […]
right of representation and performance 演出和表演权(→copyright)
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WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. A 1996 treaty giving performers the rights of attribution and integrity in their performances, and giving producers the rights of reproduction, distribution, rental, and availability. — Abbr. WPPT.
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mechanical right. Copyright. The right to reproduce a song in a phonorecord form, such as audiotape or compact disc. • The right is obtained by paying a statutory royalty; it is not necessary to obtain the songwriter’s express permission. See MECHANICAL ROYALTY. Cf. PERFORMANCE RIGHT.
WIPO Copyright Treaty. A 1996 treaty that made changes in the Berne Convention in light of the TRIPs Agreement and dealt with new copyright issues raised by the emergence of the Internet and other digital tech-nology. • The WIPO Treaty expressly protects computer software and databases and expressly excludes from protection “ideas, procedures, methods of
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Rome Act. Copyright. A 1928 revision of the Berne Convention adding the moral rights of attribution and integrity to the minimum standards of protection that member nations must recognize, creating a compulsory license of recorded performances for radio broadcasting, and specifying that the term of protection for joint works must be measured from the death
manceps (man-seps), n. [Latin “an agent”] 1. Roman law. A purchaser of something at a state auction, esp. a right or advantage, as in the right to farm taxes. See CONDUCTOR(2). “Manceps. One who at a public auction, conducted by a magistrate, through the highest bid obtained the right to collect taxes (a tax farmer)
support obligation. A secondary obligation or letter-of-credit right that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, general intangible, document, healthcare-insurance receivable, instrument, or investment property. UCC § 9-102(a)(77).
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perfect-tender rule. Commercial law. The principle that a buyer may reject a seller’s goods if the quality, quantity, or delivery of the goods fails to conform precisely to the contract. • Although the perfect-tender rule was adopted by the UCC (§ 2-601), other Code provisions — such as the seller’s right to cure after rejection
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emancipation. 1. The act by which one who was under another’s power and control is freed. 2. A surrender and renunciation of the correlative rights and duties concerning the care, custody, and earnings of a child; the act by which a parent (historically a father) frees a child and gives the child the right to