Loudspeaker - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Loudspeaker, A device for amplifying sound. [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 131(1) (a)]...
bullhorn
a portable loudspeaker with built in microphone and amplifier...
loudspeaker
A device which converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance usually outdoors it is used to amplify or transmit over a distance speech from a person who is typically speaking into a microphone Sometimes it is used to play recorded speech or music...
Copyright
Copyright, an incorporeal right, being the exclusive privilege of printing, reprinting, selling, and publishing is own original work which the statute law first gave to an author in 1709, by 8 Anne, c. 19, for the term of fourteen years. Whether the right exited at Common Law is a long-vexed and still undetermined question. See Jeffries v. Boosey, (1854) 4 HLC 815. There is no copyright in an illegal or immoral publication, Southey v. Sherwood, (1817) 2 Mer 435; Stockdale v. Onwhyn, (1826) 5 B&C 173.The law of copyright now depends mainly on the (English) Copyright Act,1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46) (July 1, 1912), and 'no person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force' (s. 31).By sub-s. 2 of s. 1 of this Act 'copyright' is thus defined:--For the purposes of ...
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