Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
- adj. Of or relating to a copyright: copyright law; a copyright agreement.
- adj. Protected by copyright: permission to publish copyright material.
- v. To secure a copyright for.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Exclusive right to multiply and to dispose of copies of an intellectual production (Drone); the right which the law affords for protecting the produce of man's intellectual industry from being made use of by others without adequate recompense to him (Broom and Hadley). It is a right given by law for a limited number of years, upon certain conditions, to the originator of a book or other writing, painting, sculpture, design, photograph, musical composition, or similar production, or to his assignee. It corresponds to the patent of an invention. In the United States the term is 28 years, with the privilege of renewal for 14 years; in England it is 42 years, or the period of the author's life and 7 years additional, whichever period is the longer.
- To secure a copyright of, as a book or play, by complying with the requirements of the law; enter for copyright.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
- n. countable Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
- v. To place under a copyright.
- v. To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.
- v. To secure a copyright on.
WordNet 3.0
- v. secure a copyright on a written work
- n. a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
Examples
“* % copyright% - Any copyright notice included with the feed.”
“* @copyright (c) 20010 Kamahl djchrisnet wrote: I hope you are alive when the copyright begins xD djchrisnet wrote: I hope you are alive when the copyright begins xD”
“Bartholomew: the expansion of vicarious liability in copyright is bad and was done in ignorance of its pedigree in tort law.”
“But the more expanded vicarious liability in copyright is constitutionally problematic.”
“The British Library conducted the research because the balance in copyright is being undermined in the digital era”
“Intellectual Property Organization, said the draft may be baffling since so far the term copyright has not been applied to cultural heritage because authors of the work in question are long gone.”
“Maureen Reid of Boca Raton, Florida asks, "when are America CEOs going to realize that the term copyright to China and India means the right to copy whatever they like.”
“On the basis of this legal principle, the AAR observed that the term copyright should have the same meaning as understood under the Copyright Act, 1957 ( "CR Act").”
“Section 14 of the CR Act defines the term copyright and enlists the various rights attached to such a copyright.”
“So, if you're a songwriter, any way your song can be worked as a copyright is a good thing.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘copyright’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 more...
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 71 more...
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ready,aim, pyre
words with pyr or the sense of fire
pyrachanta, pyral, pyralis, pyrex, pyrexia, pyrite, pyrena, pyrene, pyrenees, pyrethroid, pyretology, pyrgom and 76 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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CULT - intellectual property rights
pirate cassette, pirate video, media piracy, artists' resale r..., copyright, licensing, World Intellectua..., bootlegging
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I am the law!
Words I learnt at law school
appeal, blackletter, contract, dictum, headnote, judgment, litigation, malfeasance, negligence, plaintiff, quantum, remedy and 216 more...
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aozuas's Words
sense data, hyperreality, brouhaha, ibid, apophenia, fnord, lackadaisical, schadenfreude, bildungsroman, ready-made, readymade, tergiversar and 654 more...
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WSTLND
Enter the Machine
art, architecture, music, film, video games, fashion, News, Current Affairs, open journalism, documentaries, Computers, Internet and 13 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for copyright.
chained_bear Yes, the term of copyright in the U.S. is much longer now--I think there was a big fat law in 1978 that really overhauled, you know, stuff. Oh, and this comment is ©2009. May 27, 2009
sionnach According to Gesta Typographica by Chas. Jacobi, 1897, (page 21).
The United States gives twenty-eight years, with the right of extension for fourteen more; in all, forty-two years. Mexico, Guatemala, and Venezuela, in perpetuity. Colombia and Spain, author’s life and eighty years after. Belgium, Ecuador, Norway, Peru, Russia, and Tunis, author’s life and fifty years after. Italy, author’s life and forty years after; the full term to be eighty years in any event. France, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, author’s life and thirty years after. Hayti, author’s life, widow’s life, childrens’ lives, and twenty years after the close of the latest period. Brazil, Sweden, and Roumania, author’s life and ten years after. Great Britain, author’s life and seven years after his decease; to be forty-two years in any event. Bolivia, full term of author’s life. Denmark and Holland, fifty years. Japan, author’s life and five years after. South Africa, author’s life; fifty years in any event.
I assume that these values have since been superseded by international agreements. Or maybe not. May 27, 2009
arby Yeah! Also, ha. Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear Of course you knew that--you just meant that when people say copywrite instead of copyright, it's nails on your chalkboard. Write?
(har! I slay me.) Nov 30, 2007
arby Yeah, that's what I meant. I knew that, I swear!
*blushes*
*is tempted to edit previous comment to make self look less ignorant* Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear But... arby... that's a real verb, isn't it? Copywriting is a real job! Or do you mean when it's used incorrectly and should be "copyright"? Nov 30, 2007
reesetee Don't go jabbing WeirdNet! There's no telling what might happen! *ducks behind long word* Nov 30, 2007
arby Oh, that reminds me of another fingernail on the chalkboard of my brain - copywrite. Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear Yeah! Take that, WeirdNet! *jabs* Nov 30, 2007
reesetee Yes, that's what I was thinking. A copyright is the right itself. Nov 30, 2007
chained_bear I think it's just wrong, actually. It's not a document--it's the right itself. Nov 30, 2007
vanishedone WeirdNet is a bit out of date with this one; under the Berne Convention copyright is automatic, without needing to be documented. Nov 29, 2007