COPYRIGHT

[noun] - the legal right to control every way of producing a version of an original piece of work, such as a book, play, film, photograph or piece of musicUnder American law, a song remains in copyright for 75 years after publication.$The school was sued for breach of/infringing copyright (= disobeying copyright laws) after a teacher photocopied some textbooks. [U]$Who owns/holds the copyright in the play?$The symbol © shows that something is protected by copyright. [U]