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Meaning copyright meaning

What does copyright mean?
Definitions in simple English

copyright Noun

— Copyright is the rights given to a creator to protect their work from other uses. Star Wars' copyright is held by Lucasfilm.

copyright Verb

— If you copyright something, you register its copyright. She copyrighted her book.

copyright

— noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work — verb secure a copyright on a written work did you copyright your manuscript?

Synonyms copyright synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as copyright?

copyright English » English

patent right of first publication literary property trust syndicate royalties right of authorship monopoly copyrighted authorship

Topics copyright topics

What do people use copyright to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Publish

Conjugation copyright conjugation

How do you conjugate copyright?

copyright · verb

Examples copyright examples

How do I use copyright in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom infringed the copyright.
It's fine to set up a web page, just be sure you don't infringe anybody's copyright.
I wish all those an unhurried night who want a revision of the existing copyright laws, but actually all the others too.
Tom always violates copyright laws.
Here the copyright comes into play.
Copyright infringement is against the law.

Movie subtitles

Mac, okay by special request of the copyright owner.
Righto, Ritto, providing I control the copyright and all publication rights.
New York hasn't got a copyright on opportunity.
You see, the question of retaining copyright.
You can't copyright an arrangement.
I can't help the fact they're all using it so much. There's no copyright on it.
Oh, well, if it's that old, then it's out of copyright.
Well, I mean, if I owned a copyright on the Bible. I wouldn't sell it to Random House.
Do I get to keep the copyright?
Wait. I get the girls around here. There could be a copyright problem.
Alik Zapadny of VAAP, the all-suffocating Soviet Copyright Agency.
This joker doesn't know I'll get him because I'm a copyright lawyer.
For me, the legal principle involved is copyright infringement.
Copyright laws were enacted to stop exactly what Sander are doing.
But together they ruled the Riviera, by permission of the copyright holder, Lulu McGee.
I've got a private copyright of my own.
Do I still own the copyright?
It's the only country where the director owns copyright.
I don't know if it's copyright.
And even though we are not bound by copyright laws with your country, I promise you full royalties and dramatist prerogatives.
Secondly, Taiwan has never signed international agreements regarding copyright and reproduction rights.
Poxy publishers, marauding pirates, leaky laws of copyright, so-called, what chance had I?
We're looking for copyright violations, pirated films, pornography.
Okay, how about Copyright 1968 ABKCO Music Inc.?
In the Swedish copyright law that was instituted in 1964 a legal right is given the originator to comment upon and explain his works.
I'm sorry, Mrs. Simpson but you can't copyright a drink. Ohh!
I even saw a copyright date on it.
Copyright expired.
And since it was so bad, I didn't copyright it.
Why copyright garbage like that?
And that's copyright infringement.
Who'll own the copyright?
Say if I was to survive and wanted to write my autobiography, could I use extracts or would you own the copyright?
As far as I know, you own the copyright.
I got the copyright on the Albanian kitten thing.
Obviously, the copyright, royalties, everything would be yours.
So much fun it should be illegal like copyright infringement.

News and current affairs

Most of the works held by those research libraries are still in copyright.
For example, if the creators of television series like Game of Thrones, the most pirated show in history, stopped fighting copyright infringement, they could seize an opportunity.
Long-outdated copyright and licensing laws must be overhauled.
Breaches of copyright will become even more widespread than they are today (although they will cost the copyright owners very little, because the poor would be very unlikely to be able to buy books or other copyrighted material).
The legacy of their success, copyright law, continues to impede attempts to render cyberspace a free marketplace of ideas.
Reducing the costs for developing countries to use new technologies may, indeed, reduce the incentives for violating copyright and other intellectual property protections.
Google said that it would scan the entire book, irrespective of its copyright status, but that users searching for something in copyrighted books would be shown only a snippet.
Publishers and authors disagreed, and some sued Google for breach of copyright, eventually agreeing to settle their claim in exchange for a share of Google's revenue.
But corporations build fortunes on copyright, and repeatedly pushed Congress to extend it, to the point that in the US it now lasts for 70 years after the creator's death.
International rules on patents and copyright reflect the ability of pharmaceutical companies and Hollywood - to take just two examples - to get their way.
The face of General Electric's longtime boss Jack Welch is in bookstore windows across China, although his latest book is probably a pirated edition because China still has a way to go on copyright protection.

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