Copyright protection provides the owner exclusive rights to use, copy and adapt the fictional characters, as well as other related rights, subject only to copyright defenses such as fair use or expiration.
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Owners of classic yachts tend not to worry about losing size-related bragging rights, something likely on the mind of Roman Abramovich.
Founded in 1968, Apple Corps controls certain rights related to the Beatles recordings, although the recordings themselves are owned by EMI.
You have defended numerous causes related to human rights throughout your life.
We must promote the availability and use of employment and training opportunities, while educating employers, employees, and workforce professionals about work-related benefits and rights.
Macedonia also has suffered internal strife since its departure from Yugoslavia in 1991, much of it related to a rights struggle by the country's large Albanian minority.
Thus, it will improve the capacities of its participants, in particular in the area of diagnosis, analysis, planning, and evaluation of public policies related to human rights.
Beijing already uses a large contingent of "Internet Police" to monitor bulletin boards, websites and blogs for messages and keywords related to human rights, religion, and democracy.
In addition, Holocaust education offers opportunities to educators who wish to address difficult issues related to human rights, tolerance, anti-Semitism and racism, as well as traumatic memories.
This would be accompanied by the ending of all American nuclear-related sanctions (some American sanctions are related to human rights abuses, which Congress would be reluctant to lift).
The organs and specialized agencies related to human rights should therefore further enhance the coordination of their activities based on the consistent and objective application of international human rights instruments.
Prosecutors said last month, in proceedings related by civil rights lawyer Khaled Abu Bakr, that Mubarak's businessman friend Hussein Salem got the right to export gas to Israel through a private company Salem owned.
It is hoped that over time, all archives related to human rights violations during the region's military dictatorships will be listed in the Memory of the World Registry, so that these abuses will never occur again.
But re-engaging with the council will boost America's image in many quarters regardless of what it decides to do about a related human-rights forum: the so-called Durban II conference on racism, due to take place in Geneva in late April.
Rights related to intellectual property such as patents and copyrights are particularly important because IP is both a reward for innovation (if I invent a better mousetrap I get to patent it) and an input to it (most new ideas are recombinations of existing ones).
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Related programming: Exclusive rights to branded content throughout each season, including the official team-selection announcement.
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In Australia, the battleground is history, the related issue of indigenous rights, art and the environment.
He is expected to firm up bilateral ties and discuss Burma's reform process and rights-related issues, reports say.
It provides links to documents related to a human rights education conference co-organised by the Scotland Committee in September 2011.
DeLeon wants the Department of Homeland Security to set up a grievance procedure to address civil rights issues related to the immigration action.
Specific related topics included Indigenous Rights, Refugees and Immigrants, Human Trafficking, Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Education for All, Media and Freedom of Expression, and many others.
Thomas finds a racial angle on a broad array of issues, including those which appear to be scarcely related to traditional civil rights, like campaign finance or gun control.
On the last day of the Conference, students and teachers gathered into their respective school groups to develop action plans with specific recommendations on how to address human rights-related challenges in their schools and their communities.
The actions and policies of the Government of Belarus and other persons to undermine Belarus democratic processes or institutions, to commit human rights abuses related to political repression, and to engage in public corruption pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
News.com has a good analysis of current privacy and civil rights issues related to the use of GPS by cops and Feds, including last week's ruling by a New York judge that it's okay for cops to plant GPS units on people they want to tail, without getting a court order or notifying the suspect.
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The actions and policies of certain members of the Government of Belarus and other persons to undermine Belarus democratic processes or institutions, to commit human rights abuses related to political repression, and to engage in public corruption continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.
The contract also covers issues related to ownership of Olympic rights, trademarks and historic TV footage.
It was reaffirmed in the hotly contested Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement of 1994.
Negotiating States underlined that the draft Agreement respects fundamental rights and freedoms and does not go against the provisions of World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights).
The aim of the Forum is to open a space for dialogue for civil society, parliamentarians, decisioni-makers, regional organizations, as well as specialized UN agencies, to exchange on issues related to democracy and human rights in Africa and the Arab world.
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