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Comstock law (kom-stok). An 1873 federal statute that tightened rules against mailing “obscene, lewd, or las-civious” books or pictures, as well as “any article or thing designed for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortions.” • Because of the intolerance that led to this statute, the law gave rise to an English word roughly…

comstockery (kom-stok-<<schwa>>r-ee). (often cap.) Censorship or attempted censorship of art or literature that is supposedly immoral or obscene.[Blacks Law 8th]

computus (kom-py<<schwa>>-t<<schwa>>s). [Latin computo “to count up; to reckon”] Hist. A writ to compel a guardian, bailiff, receiver, or accountant to render an accounting. — Also spelled compotus. [Blacks Law 8th]

Computer Software Rental Amendments Act.Copyright. A 1990 statute prohibiting computer-program pur-chasers from leasing, renting, or lending the software for commercial gain.17 USCA §§ 801–805. [Blacks Law 8th]

Computer Software Protection Act of 1984.Copyright. An amendment to the Copyright Act of 1976, enacted to protect copyrighted computer programs against illegal copying. 17 USCA § 109. [Blacks Law 8th]

Computer Software Protection Act of 1980.Copyright. An amendment to the Copyright Act of 1976, defining “computer program” as a literary work for copyright purposes and qualifying the exclusive rights of copy-righted-software owners. 17 USCA § 117. [Blacks Law 8th]

Computer Programs Directive.See DIRECTIVE ON THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF COMPUTER PRO-GRAMS . [Blacks Law 8th]

computer matching.The comparing of computer records in two separate systems to determine whether the same record exists in both systems. • The government, for example, uses computer matching to find persons who are both employed and receiving welfare payments and to find instances in which both divorced parents are claiming the same child on their…

computer-information transaction.Copyright. An agreement whose primary purpose is to create, modify, transfer, or license computer information or rights in computer information. [Blacks Law 8th]

computer crime.See CRIME. [Blacks Law 8th]