Nesa Posted 13 years ago
Business & Finance
The meaning of "specific to" in the text
Hi,
According to the subject of my question, what exactly "specific to" means here? And can you please help me with the bold part of the text?
The rights conferred by copyright are more limited than registered
trade mark rights to the extent, as suggested by the term, that copyright
provides the owner with the right to prevent copying of the work. If the
alleged infringing work has been created quite independently, there will
be no grounds for a breach of copyright action. However, unlike trade
mark rights, a copyright in an artistic or musical work is not specific to
any goods or services to which it is applied but extends to any copying,
subject to certain defences.
Regards,
nesa
According to the subject of my question, what exactly "specific to" means here? And can you please help me with the bold part of the text?
The rights conferred by copyright are more limited than registered
trade mark rights to the extent, as suggested by the term, that copyright
provides the owner with the right to prevent copying of the work. If the
alleged infringing work has been created quite independently, there will
be no grounds for a breach of copyright action. However, unlike trade
mark rights, a copyright in an artistic or musical work is not specific to
any goods or services to which it is applied but extends to any copying,
subject to certain defences.
Regards,
nesa
Top answer
It means "restricted (to a particular thing/person/situation etc)". For example, you could say Of all species, language is specific only to human beings. (obviusly animals don't have a language, at least not in the sense people do)
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It means "restricted (to a particular thing/person/situation etc)".
For example, you could say
Of all species, language is specific only to human beings. (obviusly animals don't have a language, at least not in the sense people do)
For example, you could say
Of all species, language is specific only to human beings. (obviusly animals don't have a language, at least not in the sense people do)
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