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# copyright

«copyright» in Mova's school dictionary: **the legal right of the person who made a book, song…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (copyright, copyrights; usually uncountable); verb (copyright, copyrights, copyrighted, copyrighting); adjective (copyright)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (law) Copyright is the legal right of the person who made a book, song, picture, film or program to decide who can copy, sell or use it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#m1)

2) To copyright something is to get or claim this right over it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, pupils learn not to copy others' work or pictures without permission, and to give credit to sources. The symbol © shows copyright. Phrases: «under copyright», «copyright holder», «out of copyright», «breach of copyright».

### examples

- The author owns the copyright to her books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x1)
- You can't put that song in your video without permission; it is under copyright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x2)
- The © sign shows who owns the copyright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x3)
- Very old stories are out of copyright, so anyone can print them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x4)
- Our class asked permission to use the photo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x5)
- Copying a whole website and calling it yours breaks copyright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x6)
- I have only been enabled to do this by the courtesy of those who owned the copyright of these stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/#x7)

### note

Spelling: copyright, not «copywrite» (copywriting is writing adverts, a different thing). Copyright does not last forever; after a long time works become «public domain». Plagiarism (passing off someone's work as yours) is wrong even when copying is allowed.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «copyright» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/copyright/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.