Examples of copyright in a Sentence
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 24 Apr. 2025
Protecting your edge with legal safeguards Patents and copyrights can be helpful defensive moats, especially for deep tech companies.
—Check Warner Mbe, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2025
Both plans broadly called for the government to allow Big Tech firms to legally train their models on publicly available data, even if it's copyrighted.
—Sara Fischer, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
Josephine Stratman, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Disney does not seem to be on some sort of crusade to stamp out these images from the internet through copyright claims or other means.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
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“Copyright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/copyright. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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copyright
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copyright
2 of 2 verbLegal Definition
copyright
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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 The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived.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
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