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Webster 1913 Edition

Copyright

Cop′y-right

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Noun.
The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.
International copyright
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an author’s right in his productions as secured by treaty between nations.

Cop′y-rightˊ

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Verb.
T.
To secure a copyright on.

Webster 1828 Edition

Copyright

COPYRIGHT

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Noun.
The sole right which an author has in his own original literary compositions; the exclusive right of an author to print, publish and vend his own literary works, for his own benefit; the like right in the hands of an assignee.

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