copyright law

[ kop-ee-rahyt law ]

noun

1. the body of laws and regulations that govern the exclusive rights of an author or creator to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit their literary, musical, or artistic work. copyright ( def 1 ).

   This website will not be held responsible for member-posted information that may violate copyright law.

   U.S. copyright law protects photos, and a patchwork of state laws limits the use of your name or likeness without permission.

Example Sentences

By even the loosest interpretation of copyright law, this band is a serial offender.

From The Daily Beast

Swartz blurred the lines of legality, because copyright law is blurry.

From The Daily Beast

It's hard to see the connection between the locks and the software creators that copyright law were supposed to protect.

From The Daily Beast

At issue is the Librarian of Congress' decision last October to end an exemption in federal copyright law for cellphone unlocking.

From The Daily Beast

And the literary form in which the recipe is published is—again in theory—protected by copyright law.

From The Daily Beast

They were as eager as the authors—English or American—could be, for an international copyright law.

From Project Gutenberg

And says I agin, "It beats all, how anybody in human shape can make such a law as that copyright law."

From Project Gutenberg

The price of books would be enhanced by an international copyright law, and it is well that books should be cheap.

From Project Gutenberg

In the year 1790 Congress enacted their first copyright law, which superseded all the state laws on the subject.

From Project Gutenberg

I was entirely unprotected by copyright law in Germany, and could, consequently, prevent nothing.

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