duty judge
A judge responsible for setting an arrestee’s bail, usu. by telephone or videoconference.
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fixation
fixation. Copyright. The process or result of recording a work of authorship in tangible form so that it can be copyrighted under federal law. • Fixation occurs, for instance, when a live television broadcast is transmitted and simultaneously recorded on videotape. [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 12(1).]
pac man defense
Pac-Man defense (pak-man). An aggressive antitakeover defense by which the target company attempts to take over the bidder company by making a cash tender offer for the bidder company’s shares. • The name derives from a video game popular in the 1980s, the object of which was to gobble up the enemy. This defense is
non compos mentis
non compos mentis 〈拉〉精神不健全(之人)；精神失常(之人) 泛指任何智能不全或有缺陷的精神状态。据认为可分为四类：１先天性与永久性的痴呆〔ideota〕；２因疾病、悲伤等意外事件而全部丧失记忆力与理解力；３间歇性的精神错乱〔lunatic〕，即时而具有理解力时而丧失理解力的精神错乱者在发病时的状态；４因不良行为——如酗酒——而暂时丧失记忆力与理解力。该类精神不健全不得作为免责理由。 (→non sanae memoriae; insanity; idiocy; drunkenness; mental incapacity; mental incompetency)
leakage
leakage. 1. The waste of a liquid caused by its leaking from a storage container. 2. An allowance against duties granted by customs to an importer of liquids for losses sustained by this waste. 3. Intellectual property. Loss in value of a piece of intellectual property because of unauthorized copying. • The types of intellectual
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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hostile propaganda
Propaganda employed by a nation to manipulate the people of another nation to support or oppose their government. — Also termed ideological aggression. See subversive propaganda.
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commercially significant noninfringing use
commercially significant noninfringing use. Intellectual property. The routine use of a product in a way that does not infringe intellectual-property rights; the judicial test for determining whether the sale of a product amounts to contributory infringement. • If the product (such as a videotape recorder) can be used in a way that does not infringe
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subversive propaganda
Propaganda calculated to incite a civil war or revolution. • When the instigator is another nation, it is termed hostile propaganda or ideological aggression.
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time shifting
time-shifting. The practice of recording a broadcast for viewing at a later time. • Time-shifting was found to be a noninfringing fair use of videotape recorders in Sony Corp. v. Universal Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, 104 S.Ct. 774 (1984). [Cases: Copyrights and Intellectual Property 67. 1. C.J.S. Copyrights and Intellectual Property §§ 51–52, 54.]