In the UK and Canada, the mere act of creation of a work gives copyright.
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These particles are notoriously difficult to study because the mere act of observing them alters their behavior.
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Because body positions influence attitude, the mere act of unwinding a resistant posture will begin to subvert the resistance, itself.
Despite the arbitrariness of this pricing scheme, the mere act of paying for advice made people more likely to take the advice.
This hinted to them that the mere act of praying increased fidelity.
But as any user of Foursquare or Reddit knows, the mere act of keeping score spurs users on even without tangible rewards.
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They suggest that the mere act of issuing such a security was a sign of financial distress, and thus encouraged investors to sell.
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In science, the Uncertainty Principle says that you cannot precisely measure anything past a certain level of precision because the mere act of observing distorts the object of the measurement.
As economic actors, men possess different data and make different value judgments reflected in pricing so the mere act of gifting may have immeasurable value to one and not to another.
Kelly struggled to find studies that could conclusively say whether or not private equity firms create jobs, but the mere act of researching such a thing strikes this reader as pointless.
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The mere act of talking may provide some benefit.
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To him, the mere act of setting a goal is the act of placing blinders upon one's eyes -- if you're only aiming for a specific finish, you're missing out on opportunities to see what no other is seeing.
U.S. officials often talk and act as if the mere fact of Arafat's participation in the process establishes that his intentions are peaceful.
As such, the petitioner argued that this violated his Fifth Amendment rights to due process because it convicts a person for mere association and not some overt criminal act.
Both Pioneers act as though an extra force beyond mere gravity is tugging at them from the direction of the sun.
Nevertheless, the court's ruling further smudges the already blurred line between discrimination on the basis of sex, which is what is actually outlawed by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (the primary source of sexual-harassment law), and mere incivility or, in Mr Oncale's case, criminal assault.
In a hearing last month, Napster lost its attempt to portray itself as a "mere conduit" for information, which would have granted it protection under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
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