audience test

audience test. Copyright. A judicial analysis used to determine whether the lay observer or an ordinary, reasonable audience would conclude that the protectable expression in a copyrighted work is substantially similar to the expression in the accused work. — Also termed ordinary-observer test; ordinary-lay-observer test. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 53(1).]

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词条贡献者

译者蒋毅，毕业于亚洲顶尖的高级翻译学院，擅长翻译各种与破产与资产重组相关的法律文件。