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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/
- Hyphenation: copy‧right
copyright (usually uncountable, plural copyrights)
- (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.
Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.
- (countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.
The images are still copyright of the original artist.
- (uncountable, informal, nonstandard) A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
no copyright intended
2019 October 23, Christine Fisher, “House passes controversial copyright bill that could be abused by trolls”, in Engadget[1]:
Anyone accused of copyright would have sixty days to opt-out of the Copyright Claims Board process, in which case the plaintiff would have to seek legal action in court.
right to publish
- Albanian: e drejtë e autorit f
- Arabic: حُقُوق النَّشْر pl (ḥuqūq an-našr)
- Armenian: հեղինակային իրավունք (hy) (heġinakayin iravunkʻ)
- Azerbaijani: müəllif hüququ
- Belarusian: а́ўтарскае пра́ва n (áŭtarskaje práva)
- Bulgarian: а́вторско пра́во n (ávtorsko právo)
- Burmese: မူပိုင် (my) (mupuing), မူပိုင်ခွင့် (mupuinghkwang.)
- Catalan: drets d'autor m pl
- Chinese:
- Cornish: gwir-brintya m, gwirbryntyans m, gwir-pryntya m
- Czech: autorské právo n, copyright (cs) m
- Danish: ophavsret c
- Dutch: auteursrecht (nl) n
- Esperanto: aŭtora rajto, aŭtororajto, kopirajto (eo)
- Estonian: autoriõigus
- Finnish: tekijänoikeus (fi), copyright (fi)
- French: (right always owned by the author) droit d’auteur (fr) m, (right attached to the work) copyright (fr) m
- Georgian: საავტორო უფლებები (saavṭoro uplebebi)
- German: Urheberrecht (de) n
- Greek: δικαιώματα δημιουργού n pl (dikaiómata dimiourgoú), πνευματικά δικαιώματα (el) n pl (pnevmatiká dikaiómata)
- Hausa: hakkin-mallaka (ha)
- Hindi: कॉपीराइट m (kŏpīrāiṭ), स्वत्वाधिकार m (svatvādhikār), प्रकाशनाधिकार m (prakāśanādhikār), प्रतिलिप्यधिकार m (pratilipyadhikār)
- Hungarian: szerzői jog (hu)
- Icelandic: höfundarréttur
- Ido: autoryuro
- Indonesian: hak cipta (id)
- Irish: cóipcheart m
- Italian: copyright (it) m, diritto d'autore (it) m
- Japanese: 版権 (ja) (はんけん, hanken), 著作権 (ja) (ちょさくけん, chosakuken)
- Kazakh: авторлық құқық (avtorlyq qūqyq)
- Korean: 저작권(著作權) (ko) (jeojakgwon)
- Kyrgyz: автордук укук (avtorduk ukuk)
- Lao: ລິຂະສິດ (lo) (li kha sit)
- Latvian: autortiesības f pl
- Lithuanian: autorinė teisė f, autorių teisė f
- Luxembourgish: Auteursrecht n
- Macedonian: а́вторско пра́во n (ávtorsko právo)
- Malay: hak cipta
- Malayalam: പകർപ്പവകാശം (ml) (pakaṟppavakāśaṁ)
- Maltese: dritt tal-awtur m
- Manx: coip-chiart m
- Maori: manatā, manatārua
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: opphavsrett m
- Nynorsk: opphavsrett m
- Persian: کپی رایت (fa) (kopi-râyt), حق تکثیر (haqq-e taksir)
- Polish: prawo autorskie n
- Portuguese: direitos autorais m pl
- Romanian: drept de autor n
- Russian: а́вторское пра́во (ru) n (ávtorskoje právo)
- Scottish Gaelic: dlighe-sgrìobhaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ауторско право n
- Roman: autorsko pravo n
- Slovak: autorské právo n
- Slovene: avtorske pravice f pl
- Spanish: derechos de autor m pl, derecho de autor, derecho de copia
- Swahili: hakimiliki
- Swedish: copyright (sv) c, upphovsrätt (sv) c, upphovsrättsskydd n
- Tagalog: karapatang-akda, karapatang-sipi (tl)
- Tajik: ҳаққи таксир (haqq-i taksir)
- Thai: ลิขสิทธิ์ (th) (lík-kà-sìt)
- Tigrinya: መሰል ደራሲ (mäsäl därasi)
- Turkish: telif hakkı (tr)
- Ukrainian: а́вторське пра́во n (ávtorsʹke právo)
- Uzbek: mualliflik huquqi
- Vietnamese: bản quyền (vi) (版權)
- Welsh: hawlfraint f
- Yakut: ааптар бырааба (aaptar bıraaba)
- Zhuang: banjgienz
copyright (third-person singular simple present copyrights, present participle copyrighting, simple past and past participle copyrighted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
1907, United States Congress House. Committee on Appropriations, District of Columbia Appropriations, page 253:
Every book will be copyrighted that the publisher believes will have such a market as will justify him in going to the expense of copyrighting to prevent competition from other publishers.
1993, Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn, The Beast at Work, →ISBN, page 161:
Further, Mr. Mullins writes FOR YOU-THE-PEOPLE, copyrighting to protect listings and to make a statement—but willingly shares his work for, after all, if it is not read then of what worth is a book?
1997, Marc Davison, All Area Access: Personal Management for Unsigned Musicians, →ISBN, page 171:
The sealed contents inside postmarked by the United States Post office will be proof enough of exactly when your work was completed. The disadvantage to this form of copyrighting is that your work is not traceable for anyone who is interested in acquiring information regarding copyright ownership.
- 2002, Spider-Man (film)
- J. J. Jameson: The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdos all gotta have a name now. Hoffman! Call the patent office, copyright the name "Green Goblin". I want a quarter every time somebody says it.
2006, Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking, →ISBN, page 55:
When your script is completed you need to copyright it with the Library of Congress in Washington DC (you can get the forms from: Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 20559. Request form PA, or you can download them from www.loc.gov/copyright).
2008, Ann Gaines, Don't Steal Copyrighted Stuff!, →ISBN:
Everything else that is written or created is automatically copyrighted.
Borrowed from English copyright.
copyright inan
Declension of copyright (inanimate, ending in consonant)
- “copyright”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
copyright
- Synonym of tekijänoikeus (“copyright”)
Inflection of copyright (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | copyright | copyrightit | |
genitive | copyrightin | copyrightien | |
partitive | copyrightia | copyrighteja | |
illative | copyrightiin | copyrighteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | copyright | copyrightit | |
accusative | nom. | copyright | copyrightit |
gen. | copyrightin | ||
genitive | copyrightin | copyrightien | |
partitive | copyrightia | copyrighteja | |
inessive | copyrightissa | copyrighteissa | |
elative | copyrightista | copyrighteista | |
illative | copyrightiin | copyrighteihin | |
adessive | copyrightilla | copyrighteilla | |
ablative | copyrightilta | copyrighteilta | |
allative | copyrightille | copyrighteille | |
essive | copyrightina | copyrighteina | |
translative | copyrightiksi | copyrighteiksi | |
abessive | copyrightitta | copyrighteitta | |
instructive | — | copyrightein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
- “copyright”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Borrowed from English copyright.
copyright m (plural copyrights)
- copyright
Il était … une petite grenouille
Copyright Clé International, Paris 1986.- There Once Was… a Little Frog
Copyright Clé International, Paris 1986.
- There Once Was… a Little Frog
- “copyright”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Unadapted borrowing from English copyright.
copyright m
- ^ copyright in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ copyright in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Unadapted borrowing from English copyright
copyright m (invariable)
- Alternative form of copirraite
Unadapted borrowing from English copyright.
copyright n (uncountable)
declension of copyright (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) copyright | copyrightul |
genitive/dative | (unui) copyright | copyrightului |
vocative | copyrightule |
Unadapted borrowing from English copyright.
copyright m (plural copyrights)
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
- “copyright”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014