copyright

copyright

For Wiktionary's copyrights, see Wiktionary:Copyrights

English

Etymology

copy +‎ right

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒpiˌɹaɪt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: copy‧right

Noun

copyright (usually uncountable, plural copyrights)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (uncountable, informal, nonstandard) A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.
   • 2019 October 23, Christine Fisher, “House passes controversial copyright bill that could be abused by trolls”, in Engadget‎:

     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.

Derived terms

• anti-copyright
• copyright laundering
• copyright symbol
• copyright trap
• copyright troll
• poor man's copyright

 

Translations

right to publish

Albanian: e drejtë e autorit f Arabic: حُقُوق النَّشْر‎ pl (ḥuqūq an-našr) Armenian: հեղինակային իրավունք (hy) (hełinakayin iravunkʿ) 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: Cantonese: 版權, 版权 (baan2 kyun4) Mandarin: 版權／版权 (zh) (bǎnquán) Min Nan: 版權 (zh-min-nan), 版权 (pán-kôan) 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 (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) (pakaṟppavakāśaṃ) 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 Swedish: copyright (sv) c, upphovsrätt (sv) c, upphovsrättsskydd n Tagalog: karapatang-akda Tajik: ҳаққи таксир (haqqi 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

Verb

copyright (third-person singular simple present copyrights, present participle copyrighting, simple past and past participle copyrighted)

1. (transitive or 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.

Derived terms

• copyrightable

Translations

place under a copyright

Dutch: onder auteursrecht plaatsen Finnish: suojata tekijänoikeudella Greek: κατοχυρώνω (el) (katochyróno) Italian: porre sotto copyright Slovene: avtorsko zaščititi Swedish: upphovsrättsskydda Welsh: hawlfreintio

obtain a copyright

Finnish: suojata tekijänoikeudella Italian: tutelare i diritti d'autore, tutelare i copyright

See also

• copyfight
• copyleft
• copyright infringement
• exclusive right
• copywrong

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Finnish

Etymology

From English copyright.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkopirɑi̯t/, [ˈko̞pirɑi̯t̪]

Noun

copyright

1. copyright

Declension

Inflection of copyright (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
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
instructive		—	copyrightein
abessive		copyrightitta	copyrighteitta
comitative		—	copyrighteineen

Possessive forms of copyright (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	copyrightini	copyrightimme
2nd person	copyrightisi	copyrightinne
3rd person	copyrightinsa

Synonyms

• tekijänoikeus

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French

Etymology

From English copyright.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.pi.ʁajt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

copyright m (plural copyrights)

1. copyright

   Il était … une petite grenouille
   Copyright Clé International, Paris 1986.

   There Once Was… a Little Frog
   Copyright Clé International, Paris 1986.

Further reading

• “copyright”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English copyright.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.piˈrajt/, /ˌkɔ.piˈrajt/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ajt

Noun

copyright m

1. copyright

References

1. copyright in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
2. copyright in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English copyright.

Noun

copyright n (uncountable)

1. copyright

Declension

declension of copyright (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) copyright	copyrightul
genitive/dative	(unui) copyright	copyrightului
vocative	copyrightule

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English copyright.

Noun

copyright m (plural copyrights)

1. copyright

Further reading

• “copyright”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014