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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
A brand-new, unclassified, uncopyrighted breed, and wiped out before ever it opened its eyes or took out its intention papers!
From The Faith of Men by Jack London
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
In fact many of these uncopyrighted bits of musical vernacular were appropriated by the hymnbook makers, and christened with such titles as “Pembroke,” “Arabia,” “Brymgfryd,” “Cwyfan,” “Thydian,” and the two mentioned above.
From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown
