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Topic 1 : "Copyright and copy-making"
- Copyright - the legal right to control the production and selling of a book, play, film, photograph, or piece of music
- Verdict - an official judgment made in a court
- Photocopying - to copy documents or pictures from one piece of paper to another using a photocopier (Xerox)
- Portions - a part of something
- Academic - relating to education
- Course pack - a compilation of any photocopied extracts from one or more sources which is intended to provide students with a compilation of materials designed to support the teaching of a course
- Infringement - the action of breaking a law, agreement (violation)
- Interpreted - to explain the meaning of something
- Victory - the fact of winning a competition or battle
- Affordable - cheap enough for ordinary people to afford
- Statute - a law passed by a government and formally written down
- Pupil - a person who is taught by another (student)
- Provision - a statement within an agreement or a law that a particular thing must happen or be done
- Barring - except if a particular thing happens
- Constitute - considered to be
- Ensuring - to make certain that something happens or is done
- Clause - a part of a legal document or law that officially states that something must be done
- Consistent - always behaving or happening in a similar way
- Berne Convention - an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Switzerland, in 1886
- Intellectual - relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas
- Conflict - disagreement
- Exploitation - the use of something in order to get an advantage from it
- Unreasonable - not fair or acceptable
- Prejudice - an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
- In vain - without success
- Reprographic - used to describe equipment or systems for copying text or pictures
- Pursue - to try to achieve something
- Aspect - a particular part, feature, or quality of something
- Justly - used for saying that there is a good reason for something
- Conferring - to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone
- Reputed - famous
- Expensive - costs a lot of money
- Beyond someone’s reach - used for saying that someone cannot have or do something because they do not have enough money or skill
- Preserved - to keep something as it is
- Back out - to decide not to do something
- Injurious - causing harm or damage
- Public interest - the fact that the public has a right to know about something because it affects them
Topic 2 : "500 and counting"
- And counting - used to say that a figure (number) is constantly increasing
- Milestone - an important event in the development or history of something
- Curious - unusual and interesting
- Round number - a number that ends in 0, such as 40, 450, or 4000
- Haul - a usually large amount of something
- Apposite - relevant and appropriate to what is happening or being discussed
- Assess - to judge or decide the amount, value, quality, or importance of something
- Legacy - something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time
- Germane - relevant to a subject that is being discussed
- Cannibalise - to take parts of something, in order to make something else
- Superpower - a country that has great military, economic, and political power
- Crack of doom - a peal of thunder announcing the Day of Judgement
- Elusive - difficult or impossible to achieve
- Pursued - to try to do or achieve something
- Vibrant - energetic, exciting, and full of enthusiasm
- United - to join together as a group
- Bequeathed - pass something on or leave something to someone else
- Coming together - if people or groups come together, they meet or join in order to do something
- In awe of something / someone - fearful and respectful of someone or something
- Indomitable - very determined and impossible to defeat
- Nucleus - the central or basic part of something
- Emergence - the process of appearing or becoming recognized
- World-class - one of the best in the world
- All-round - good at doing a lot of different things, especially in sport
- Consistently - continuously
- Rivalry - a situation in which people, teams, businesses etc compete with one another
- Transformative - causing a major change to something or someone, especially in a way that makes it or them better
- Break through - to force your way through something that is stopping you from moving forward
- Slipped - fell down
- Subsequently - happening after something else
- Seldom - not often
- At the helm - in control
- Empathy - the ability to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them
- Momentous - very important because of effects on future events
- Obsessed - considering someone or something as so important that you are always thinking about them
- Dominant - more important, powerful, or successful than the other people or things of the same type
- Falls into place - when things fall into place, they happen in a satisfactory way, without problems
- Looked after - to take care of someone or something and make certain that they have everything they need
- Commended - to praise someone or something formally or publicly
- Laying out - to arrange something
- Robust - strong
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