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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

The Alta-California had copyrighted the letters and proposed to issue them in book form.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) by Paine, Albert Bigelow