refers to mark that describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose or use of the specified goods or services 

Work that consists of music plus lyrics or music only.

Rights an author retains over the integrity of a work and the right to be named as its author even after sale or transfer of the copyright.

India’s Trade-marks Act does not contain any marking requirements. However, trade-mark owners often indicate their registration through certain symbols, such as R in a circle (registered), TM (trade-mark) or SM (service mark). (See Guide to Trade-marks for more information on marking.)

Signalling that a design is registered by placing a capital "D" in a circle along with the name, or abbreviation thereof, of the design's proprietor on the object to which the design has been applied, or to its label or packaging.

Indicating copyright with a small "c" in a circle (©), the name of the copyright owner and the year of first publication.

Annual fee to keep a patent (or applications on patents filed or issued after October 1, 1989.) in good standing.

Fee required in order to maintain the rights to an industrial design for a second five-year period for designs registered after January 1, 1994.

(Multi-User Simulated Environment) -- One kind of MUD - usually with little or no violence.

See Also: MOO , MUD

(Multi-User Dungeon or Dimension) -- A (usually text-based) multi-user simulation environment. Some are purely for fun and flirting, others are used for serious software development, or education purposes and all that lies in between. A significant feature of most MUDs is that users can create things that stay after they leave and which other users can interact with in their absence, thus allowing a world to be built gradually and collectively.

See Also: MOO , MUSE

The first WWW browser that was available for the Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX all with the same interface. Mosaic really started the popularity of the Web. The source-code to Mosaic has been licensed by several companies and there are several other pieces of software as good as or better than Mosaic, most notably, Netscape.

See Also: Browser , Client , WWW

(Mud, Object Oriented) -- One of several kinds of multi-user role-playing environments, so far only text-based.

(MOdulator, DEModulator) -- A device that you connect to your computer and to a phone line, that allows the computer to talk to other computers through the phone system. Basically, modems do for computers what a telephone does for humans.

Generally speaking, “to mirror” is to maintain an exact copy of something. Probably the most common use of the term on the Internet refers to “mirror sites” which are web sites, or FTP sites that maintain exact copies of material originated at another location, usually in order to provide more widespread access to the resource.

Another common use of the term “mirror” refers to an arrangement where information is written to more than one hard disk simultaneously, so that if one disk fails, the computer keeps on working without losing anything.

See Also: FTP , Web

(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) -- The standard for attaching non-text files to standard Internet mail messages. Non-text files include graphics, spreadsheets, formatted word-processor documents, sound files, etc.

An email program is said to be MIME Compliant if it can both send and receive files using the MIME standard.

When non-text files are sent using the MIME standard they are converted (encoded) into text - although the resulting text is not really readable.

Generally speaking the MIME standard is a way of specifying both the type of file being sent (e.g. a Quicktime™ video file), and the method that should be used to turn it back into its original form.

Besides email software, the MIME standard is also universally used by Web Servers to identify the files they are sending to Web Clients, in this way new file formats can be accommodated simply by updating the Browsers’ list of pairs of MIME-Types and appropriate software for handling each type.

See Also: Browser , Client , Server , Binhex , UUENCODE

A million bytes. Actually, technically, 1024 kilobytes.

See Also: Byte , Bit , Kilobyte

(or Mailing List) A (usually automated) system that allows people to send e-mail to one address, whereupon their message is copied and sent to all of the other subscribers to the maillist. In this way, people who have many different kinds of e-mail access can participate in discussions together.