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/kˈɑpɪrˌaɪt/ Listen

noun

A document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work. Synonym: right of first publication.

verb

Secure a copyright on a written work.

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"Copyright" Quotes from Famous Books

... Editions of Scott are published solely by A. and C. Black, who purchased along with the copyright the interleaved set of the Waverley Novels in which Sir Walter Scott noted corrections and improvements almost to the day of his death. The under-noted editions have been collated word for word with this set, and many inaccuracies, ...

— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly

... wishes also to acknowledge the courtesies generously extended by the following authors, periodicals, and publishers in granting permission for the use of the poems indicated, rights in which are in each case reserved by the owner of the copyright:— ...

— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke

... too that Haydn opened a correspondence with William Forster of London, who had added to his business of violin-maker that of a music-seller and publisher. Forster entered into an agreement with him for the English copyright of his compositions, and between 1781 and 1787 he published eighty-two symphonies, twenty-four quartets, twenty-four solos, duets and trios, and the "Seven Last Words," of which we have yet to speak. Nothing of the Forster correspondence seems ...

— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden

... acknowledgment is made on the title and copyright pages of those contributing to each book, the Committee nevertheless felt that a group list of co-operating ...

— Compound Words - Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #36 • Frederick W. Hamilton

... you will read the copyright essay, you will discover that Judge Douglas himself says, a controversy between the American Colonies and the Government of Great Britain began on the slavery question in 1699, and continued from that time until the Revolution; and, while he did not say so, we all know that it has continued ...

— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay

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