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  • adjective law Protected by a copyright.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of copyright.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright

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Examples

  • The network programmers submitted that this would mean the cable company would then be making unauthorised use of copyrighted programmes, because people could (gasp!) fast forward ads placed in copyrighted programmes that they run.

    Copyright schmopyright « One Size Fits One 2009

  • Notably, as a crucial element to foster the healthy development of e-commerce in copyrighted materials, these treaties obligated adhering countries to enact effective legal regimes to protect technological measures used by copyright owners to control access to and copying of their works.

    Canada as world ‘file-swapping capital’ 2009

  • However, because this work may contain copyrighted images or other material, permission from the copyright holder may be necessary if you wish to reproduce this material separately.

    Why YouTube should support Creative Commons now | FactoryCity 2008

  • The basic reason why specs and rules and the like cannot be copyrighted is that there are only a finite number of ways to “express” them using language.

    Scripting News for 6/20/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • And MySpace recently announced it will no longer allow users to post videos that contain copyrighted material — hello, YouTube — much as it was already filtering out some major-label music.

    The Web 2.0 Bubble 2007

  • And MySpace recently announced it will no longer allow users to post videos that contain copyrighted material — hello, YouTube — much as it was already filtering out some major-label music.

    The Web 2.0 Bubble 2007

  • Beginning yesterday morning, the FBI and law enforcement from 10 other countries conducted over 90 searches worldwide as part of “Operation Site Down, ” designed to disrupt and dismantle many of the leading criminal organizations that illegally distribute and trade in copyrighted software, movies, music, and games on the Internet.

    Boing Boing: June 26, 2005 - July 2, 2005 Archives 2005

  • The point of the ruling is that tools such as what Grokster were making available are illegal, but Bittorrent and tools of this nature are not promoted as mechanisms to obtain copyrighted materials.

    Supreme Court Rules Against File Swapping 2005

  • Like a videocassette recorder, the software could be used for legitimate purposes as well as traffic in copyrighted songs and movies, he said.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » File-Sharing Not Infringement, Court Rules 2003

  • With these legally ordained control methods, it becomes trivially easy to stop the flow of dissent since it might contain copyrighted material.

    Boing Boing: December 1, 2002 - December 7, 2002 Archives 2002

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