“Compulsory licenses” means licenses issued by the government allowing someone else to produce the
patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner. It is one of the flexibilities of patent
protection.
“Computer” means an electronic or similar device having information-processing capabilities.
“Computer program” means a set of instructions expressed in words, codes, schemes or in any other form,
which is capable, when incorporated in a medium that the computer can read, of causing a computer to
perform or achieve a particular task or result.
“Copies” means material objects, other than sound recordings, in which a work is fixed by any method
now known or later developed, and which the work can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise
communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. it includes the material object, other
than a sound recording, in which the work is first fixed.
“Copy” means a reproduction of a work in any manner or form and includes a sound or audio-visual
recording of a work and any permanent or transient storage of a work in any medium, by any technology.
“Copyright” means a bundle of exclusive legal rights concerned with the protection of literary and artistic
works, also known as “works”. However, where the work is produced by officials, employees, or
workers, as part of their duties, the persons who employ them shall be entitled to copyright originally,
unless the contrary results from a contract or regulations applying to the parties concerned. Further, where
the work is commissioned by a person who is not the employer of the author and who pays or agrees to
pay for it and the work made in pursuance of that commission, the person who so commissioned the work
shall be entitled to copyright originally, unless there is a stipulation to the contrary or he has not fulfilled
his agreement.
“Copyright Owner”, with respect to anyone of the exclusive rights comprised in a copyright, means the
owner of that particular right.
“Court” means a court of justice of the Republic of Liberia.
“Deputy Director” means one of the principle deputies to the Director General responsible for the
Copyright Office or the Industrial Property Office.
“Derivative work” means a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical
arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction,
abridgement, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A
work consisting of editorial revision annotations, elaboration, or other modifications, which as a whole,
represent an original work of authorship.
“Device machine” or “process” means one now known or later developed.
“Display work” means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image or
any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show
individual images non-sequentially.
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