Sentence examples for a work of authorship from inspiring English sources

That was impossible, because copyright covers only the details of a work of authorship, and only restricts copying.

Copyright is available only for the expression of a work of authorship, not for a mere idea.

A work of authorship is in the public domain if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection.

Today, the owner of a work of authorship has the exclusive right to make derivative works based on her original work or to allow others to do so.

A performer's voice is analogous to her image, which we've said "is not a work of authorship" under the Copyright Act.

Thus, in the sense of the bill, a "book" is not a work of authorship, but is a particular kind of "copy". Instead, the author may write a "literary work," which in turn can be embodied in a wide range of "copies" and "phonorecords," including books, periodicals, computer punch cards, microfilm, tape recordings, and so forth.

It emphasizes that a compilation, like any other work, is copyrightable only if it satisfies the originality requirement ("an original work of authorship").

For better and worse, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is a work of directorial authorship.

"Ms. Hughes's contributions to the text have made it almost a work of dual authorship.

Unlike earlier such endeavours, this was purely a work of Chinese authorship; Jesuits were not involved in the compilation.

Ms. Hughes has contributed so liberally to the text that this is in effect a work of joint authorship".