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- noun Plural form of
copyright . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
copyright .
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Examples
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The protection of the copyrights is a special privilege that society grants to the holder, that is done in order to grant society a return.
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To return to the intellectual property example, the idea behind giving people patents and copyrights is precisely that it might be a bad idea to force people to sell things (books, songs, prescription drugs) for the marginal cost of distributing them.
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Having a particular policy with respect to patents or copyrights is a policy choice, which should be evaluated according to whether it promotes the public interest more or less than alternative policies.
Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010
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Having a particular policy with respect to patents or copyrights is a policy choice, which should be evaluated according to whether it promotes the public interest more or less than alternative policies.
Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010
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Having a particular policy with respect to patents or copyrights is a policy choice, which should be evaluated according to whether it promotes the public interest more or less than alternative policies.
Robert Naiman: Brazil Should Lead on Access to Essential Medicines Robert Naiman 2010
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While Google is kind enough to allow you to retain copyrights over everything you submit through the browser, you are kind enough to grant them an irrevocable license to it.
Google’s Chrome Kills the Lucrative Toolbar Business - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Had Mr Shockley been alive today, he would have earned billions in copyrights, which would have enabled him to lobby Congress and Senate with success for all his genetically controversial views. —
Buying Tomatoes at the Birthplace of Silicon Valley - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The response to abnormally long copyrights is not “information is free” it is “we need to return copyrights to more realistic lengths of time.”
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Hall of the Stationers 'Company, where a register of copyrights is kept.
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Certainly, the existence of copyrights is necessary to incent the production of certain types of creative works.
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