status quo ante: the legal default rules
de minimus: Other claims dropped out before the fair use stage because they were uploaded to the e-reserves system but never downloaded by students. The court dismisses these from the lawsuit as de minimis, explaining that these uses by the University, while technical implicating the copyright owners’ exclusive rights, don’t affect the incentives for authors to create. This puts more teeth in the de minimis doctrine in copyright: it goes beyond the view that de minimis means “not substantially similar.” It also strengthens the argument that “internal use” copies never used to reach an to an audience that reads them for their content don’t infringe. Think, for example, of the HathiTrust’s archive of scans from Google Books.
supra : Latin for "above," a court decision which has been previously mentioned. [http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Supra]
dicta : judges' opinions extraneous to the case
syncronization : what music publishers call a song that's been used (syncronized) with other media; powerpoint, video, etc. This act usually changes the terms of licensing if not expressed explicitly.
Theatrical rental
Grand rights