How to Use copyright in a Sentence

copyright

1 of 3 noun

• The book is under copyright.
• His family still holds the copyright to his songs.
• The copyright wasn’t renewed on the Keaton film and it’s been in the public domain since 1956.
  — Andrew Dalton, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
• The video was posted to YouTube but has since been removed due to a copyright claim.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 3 May 2023
• This isn't the first time either man's music has been the center of a copyright trial.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 4 May 2023
• Last week, the British singer was found not liable in a copyright infringement case in New York City.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2023
• If past is precedent, many of these videos won’t comply with copyright rules.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 16 June 2023
• So Sheeran's latest copyright battle could be a test of how true that is.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 Apr. 2023
• The verdict marked the end of a two-week copyright infringement trial between Sheeran and the heirs of the late Ed Townsend, who co-wrote the 1973 track with Gaye.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• The song was the topic of another copyright suit filed in Los Angeles.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The problems of copyright and fair use must also be dealt with, and that means a near-infinite number of lawyer-hours.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
• Lawmakers—and their staffs—also have to pore over today’s laws to see which work and which need a reboot, like copyright law in the AI era.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 26 June 2023
• Copyright Office asks for the public’s thoughts on A.I. and copyright issues.
  — Bysage Lazzaro, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
• The copyright infringement claims turned on the degree of MOVA’s contribution to the movies.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
• At the time of publication, Slawson’s email is still listed as the contact for the website, the copyright for which expired in 2019.
  — Sam Russek, The New Republic, 1 May 2023
• The husband-wife duo had sought to get a copyright release from the state to make minor revisions to the course materials.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The film will receive a copyright and will exist in perpetuity in the Library of Congress.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Since then, the piece has been embroiled in a precedent-affirming copyright dispute.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2023
• They are sometimes thought of as a piece of ownership, like a patent or a copyright, establishing a claim on a share of profits.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 21 Sep. 2023
• Last week, he was found not liable in a copyright infringement lawsuit.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
• That was a legal gray area at the time, since songs prior to that year had not been covered by federal sound recording copyrights.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 28 July 2023
• Beijing courts, on the other hand, ruled last week in favor of granting copyright protections to a creator of AI art.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• There is also an argument that the festivalgoers who took the videos own the copyright.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 Apr. 2023
• Among the counts levied by Dillon against those in charge of the project include breach of contract, fraudulent transfer and copyright infringement.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2023
• In copyright law, fair use is a moving target, interpreted by judges on a case-by-case basis.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Dupes, as demonstrated by some of the copyright struck videos, can even highlight the quality of an original product.
  — Daysia Tolentino, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
• The goal was to avoid any copyright claims from scraping data and instead invent a data set on which to train their defamation detector.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 23 Oct. 2023
• And the duration of that copyright has been extended several times.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• Tangent This isn’t the first time Marvin Gaye’s music has been involved in copyright infringement suits, either.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Producers edited the music video to remove news footage of BLM protests due to third party copyright clearance issues.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2023

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copyright

2 of 3 verb

• He has copyrighted all of his plays.
• Rentmeester can't copyright the pose of the athlete, the court said.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The courts have long held that laws can't be copyrighted.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• Baker, who passed away in 2017, did not copyright the flag and its use took off around the world.
  — Sarah Prager, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2021
• The issues were with YouTube, because YouTube would copyright a lot of videos.
  — Sandra Song, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2021
• Meanwhile, a judge ruled last week that AI art can’t be copyrighted.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
• But the artist failed to adequately copyright it and so missed out on the huge royalties that may have been due him.
  — Will Higgins, Indianapolis Star, 22 May 2018
• Features added to the mouse in his long evolution are still copyrighted.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Their point, ultimately, is that melodies could be seen as math, which is to say facts, and facts cannot be copyrighted.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2020
• The Eiffel Tower’s sparkling lights are copyrighted art.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
• When Billboard spoke to Knight for a cover story in 2020, the Atlanta native had begun his fight to copyright his moves in earnest.
  — Nina Braca, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2022
• And because no one owned the rights — a decision was made early not to copyright the design — everyone was able to own the cause.
  — Jason Sheeler, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• The data that these models are trained on is often copyrighted.
  — Jaideep Vaidya, IEEE Spectrum, 11 June 2023
• The cut and three-dimensional shape of a garment cannot be copyrighted, for instance.
  — Marc Bain, Quartzy, 27 Nov. 2019
• Source The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet.
  — Chris Wilson, SI.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• It was copyrighted in Japan by a company called Paimore Co. and uses the hair's natural wave.
  — Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• He was advised to copyright the term, but decided not to, so other providers could more easily adopt it.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• And for those who love the idea of building their own, just know these designs are copyrighted, although Pauly is looking for apprentices to pass on the legacy.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 17 Apr. 2019
• The court ruled that some of the characters the author created were developed enough to be copyrighted, while others were not.
  — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 9 May 2018
• According to the letter, Griner copyrighted the image in 2012.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2020
• The package, notarized by a Harry Lichtiger, was presumably an effort by Reed to copyright his songs.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
• But a couple of rulings from the 1800s said that judicial documents could not be copyrighted.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2020
• The biggest question is whether a dance move can be copyrighted at all — a legal matter that has never been fully answered.
  — Nick Statt, The Verge, 20 Dec. 2018
• The first part of the Restatement, which is being considered now, deals mostly with abstract issues -- what can be copyrighted and so on.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
• This would require some platforms, like YouTube, to take steps to prevent users from uploading copyrighted content.
  — Robert Levine, Billboard, 28 June 2018
• Bowden discovered that the only way to get her photos removed was to copyright them and then issue takedown notices to websites.
  — Olivia Solon, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2019
• Take the topic out of the hands of coaches and athletic departments because both groups have shown themselves unable to shake the idea that the information is copyrighted.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 3 July 2018
• Technically, the name is copyrighted by Dorothy Lane Market, a specialty-foods store based in Dayton.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Jan. 2020
• In general, only the work of humans—or groups of humans, such as corporations—can be copyrighted.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court focuses on whether a company can copyright the chevrons, zigzags and stripes on cheerleading uniforms.
  — Emilie Rusch, The Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2017

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copyright

3 of 3 adjective

• The copyright date is 2005.
• The legal team does a search for copyright issues with the game’s name.
  — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• In response to Grant’s suit, Trump argued this was copyright fair use.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2021
• It is presented by many copyright lawyers as the best chance to set some rules for the technology.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
• The project was originally up on YouTube, but EarthCam filed a copyright claim, and the piece has since been taken down.
  — Molly Enking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• That’s the regional Samsung entity that filed a copyright claim to remove the video from YouTube.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 7 Aug. 2021
• That’s when Sony intervened to remove the image from Twitter on a copyright claim.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 31 Aug. 2021
• To add to the complexity, some sound recordings have a longer copyright period than the standard 95-year term.
  — Schuyler Moore, Forbes, 9 Feb. 2024
• But with copyright protections, that wasn’t going to happen.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• The publishers claim the feature violates copyright law.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2019
• It was eventually removed from the platform, but due to a copyright claim, not because of its falsity.
  — Donie O'Sullivan, CNN, 16 Sep. 2020
• Case law is sparse, and the dispute raises unsettled questions about the copyright interest of the parties in an interview.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
• After a deluge of critical press and social media backlash, the video was removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim by Sony, who owns the rights to the Backyardigans theme sampled in the song.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2022
• Masihzadeh's copyright claim will now go on to court, but the judge's initial ruling can still be challenged in the appellate court, per legal proceedings in Iran.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2022
• The company’s online terms of service seek to address copyright concerns.
  — Isaac Stanley-Becker and Drew Harwell, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The company eventually removed it due to a copyright claim.
  — Donie O'Sullivan and Daniel Dale, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
• If restricting resale of Frozen download codes is copyright misuse, that doesn't just mean that Redbox can re-sell download codes.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2018
• Google said in its lawsuit that, under the DMCA, it is obligated to trust the assertions that copyright claimants make in takedown requests.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
• Some works, like the Bible, existed before copyright laws were created that have been publicly available.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 13 July 2023
• Other legal issues that can muddy the waters are copyright, who is minting the NFT, the transfer of funds and anti-money-laundering laws.
  — Michael Golomb, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• Artists and book authors share similar worries and have filed copyright lawsuits against A.I. platforms, seeking to protect their life’s work and livelihoods.
  — Suzanne Nossel, The New Republic, 31 July 2023
• Archivists attempting to preserve old video games have been locked in copyright battles with publishers for years.
  — Jonathan Lee, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
• There's probably good reason to doubt whether the need to experiment is something that alone can beat a copyright claim, especially given all that's at play here.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2020
• It’s since been removed in response to a copyright claim, all-but confirming its authenticity.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2023
• The publishers are seeking to go to trial to prove their damages and how Twitter profited from copyright violation.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 16 June 2023
• Still, audio of Spears testimony began circulating just hours after the hearing, including in a YouTube post that has since been taken down because of a copyright claim from the court.
  — Ashley Cullins, Billboard, 30 June 2021
• Maybe the biggest challenge, and the reason every company doesn’t default to playing crowd favorites by Beyoncé or Adele, is copyright.
  — Frankie Adkins, Wired, 6 Dec. 2021
• Sony confirmed the authenticity of some of those still images when its legal team issued copyright notices and demanded they be taken down.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 9 Dec. 2021
• The government administrator decided to offer copyright protection to the comic book’s text, but not to its art.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• Paradise City is available to stream again after a copyright claim filed by rock band the Doors led to all eight episodes being temporarily removed shortly after its premiere, the series creator explains to EW.
  — Rosy Cordero, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 7 May 2024