Examples of copyright in a Sentence
Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
The film underperformed at the box office, only becoming a Christmas staple years later after a copyright lapse led to near-constant airings on local stations in the ’70s and ’80s.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Howard Dorre, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025
All of the data used to train AI was in the public domain or publicly available even if the data were copyrighted.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2025
For copyright reasons, Barrett noted this was not ABBA, though their theme music was close to it.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Copyright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copyright. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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copyright
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copyright
2 of 2 verbLegal Definition
copyright
1 of 2 noun
Note: Copyrights are governed by the Copyright Act of 1976 contained in title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived. The Act does not protect matters such as an idea, process, system, or discovery. Protection under the Act extends for the life of the creator of the work plus seventy years after his or her death. For works created before January 1, 1978, but not copyrighted or in the public domain, the copyright starts on January 1, 1978, and extends for the same period as for other works, but in any case will not expire before December 31, 2002. If a work is published on or before December 31, 2002, the copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047. The Act abolishes protection under common law, as well as any rights available under state statute, in favor of the rights available under the provisions of the Act, with certain exceptions.
copyright
2 of 2 transitive verb
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