The licensee is the party who acquires permission to exercise certain rights in software or content, subject to the terms and conditions imposed by the licensor, in a license agreement. A licensee obtains no ownership rights in the copy of the content that he or she receives. The licensor is the party who grants to another certain limited rights to possess and use software or content. Phonorecords are material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Thus, a compact disc is a phonorecord.
Software piracy is the unauthorized use of software.
Public Display Right. Public domain software comes into being when the original copyright holder explicitly relinquishes all rights to the software. Publication, under the Copyright Act, is the distribution of copies of a copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display also constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.