had copyrighted
- past perfect of copyright.
Example Sentences
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Fisher says he was soon instructed not to send any more emails, and eventually learned that Nirvana had copyrighted the smiley image and T-shirt design decades earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2020
Teller had copyrighted it as a pantomime in 1983, but hadn’t revealed the underlying mechanism.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017
The quintet’s importance dimmed; LaRocca even sued original clarinetist “Yellow” Nuñez, who had copyrighted the breakthrough “Livery Stable Blues,” for stealing his tune.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2017
By that time Salinger had copyrighted the correspondence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most certainly," Lyle continued, "I never knew that Diana had copyrighted the radiology manual and most certainly, Ian and Randy did not copy from it.
From Wild Justice by Sprague, Ruth M.
