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uncopyrighted

  • a word derived from copyright.
    copyright
    noun
    the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of an author or creator and for a period of 70 years after their death.

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It was signed by our London manager and it read:— "Present location of Charles Dickens uncertain but material is uncopyrighted, shoot."

From Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

Lovell has been described as a book pirate who tried to form a monopoly in the cheap uncopyrighted book trade.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

But the copyrighting of a photograph of an uncopyrighted subject cannot prevent the photographing of the same subject independently by others, nor can the use of a "general idea" be prevented.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

An original photograph of an uncopyrighted or uncopyrightable subject may be copyrighted as a photograph, as was held with respect to natural scenery in 1903, in Cleland v.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Richard Rogers Bowker

The opera being uncopyrighted, was published entire by an enterprising Englishman from Dublin by the name of Walsh.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard