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To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a Website . The word ''publication'' means the act of ''' Publishing ''', and it also means any writing of which copies are published, and any website. Among ''publications'' are Book s, and periodicals, the latter including Magazine s, Scholarly Journals , and Newspaper s. Computers and the Internet have changed the face of publishing, lowering the cost, and allowing more people to publish, through both Desktop Publishing and internet publishing. SPECIFIC PUBLICATIONS Some publications have to be characterized in a more specific sense and contexts. Examples: Web publishing To publish on the Web . See Website , Web Template System s, Blog , etc. Legal definition Copyright "Publication" is a technical term in legal contexts and especially important in Copyright Legislation . An author of a work generally in the initial owner of the Copyright on the work. One of the copyrights granted to the author of a work is the exclusive right to publish the work. In the United States , publication is defined as: the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication. To perform or display a work "publicly" means – ::''(1) to perform or display it at a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered; or'' ::''(2) to transmit or otherwise communicate a performance or display of the work to a place specified by clause (1) or to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.'' :— Furthermore, the right to publish a work is an exclusive right of the copyright owner (). The definition of "publication" as "distribution of copies to the general public with the consent of the author" is also supported by the . URL last accessed 2007-05-29 . Official publication In some countries, the publication in the Official Journal is a condition for the law to Come Into Effect and it is released in the Public Domain . Taxonomy In Biological Scientific Classification ( Taxonomy ), the publication of the description of a Taxon has to comply with some rules.
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