muniment house
muniment house. Hist. A place (such as a room in a castle or cathedral) where titles, deeds, and other evidences of title are stored.
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bootleg recording
bootleg recording, n. Copyright. 1. An unauthorized fixation or copy of a live or broadcast performance in a tangible medium or digital duplication made available over the Internet. — Also termed bootleg copy; underground recording; import recording. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 67. 2. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property § 58.] 2. See PIRATE RECORDING.
performance right
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.
regalia
regalia (ri-gay-lee-[schwa]). 1. Hist. Rights held by the Crown under feudal law. • Regalia is a shortened form of jura regalia. regalia majora (m[schwa]-jor-[schwa]). [Latin “greater rights”] The Crown’s greater rights; the Crown’s dignity, power, and royal prerogatives, as distinguished from the Crown’s rights to revenues. regalia minora (mi-nor-[schwa]). [Latin “lesser rights”] The Crown’s lesser
dividend credit rule
dividend-credit rule. The principle that a corporate reserve fund amassed from unpaid dividends on preferred stock must be used to pay subsequent dividends on preferred stock before dividend payments on common stock. — Also termed cast-iron-pipe doctrine. [Cases: Corporations 156. C.J.S. Corporations § 158.]
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legal vote
A vote cast in the proper form and manner for an eligible choice by someone entitled to vote.
secondary boycott
A boycott of the customers or suppliers of a business so that they will withhold their patronage from that business. • For example, a group might boycott a manufacturer who advertises on a radio station that broadcasts messages considered objectionable by the group.
directive on rental lending and certain neighbouring rights
Directive on Rental, Lending and Certain Neighbouring Rights. Copyright. A 1992 European Commission initiative setting rules for reimbursing copyright owners for home rental and public lending of videotapes and other copies of works, and establishing the rights of performers, producers, broadcasters, and cable distributors. — Also termed Rental and Related Rights Directive; Rental Directive.
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disparagement
disparagement (di-spair-ij-m[schwa]nt), n. 1. A derogatory comparison of one thing with another (the disparagement consisted in comparing the acknowledged liar to a murderer). 2. The act or an instance of castigating or detracting from the reputation of, esp. unfairly or untruthfully (when she told the press the details of her husband’s philandering, her statements amounted
illegal vote
A vote that does not count because it was cast by someone not entitled to vote or for an ineligible choice, or in a form or manner that does not comply with the applicable rules. See spoiled ballot under BALLOT(2).