Sentence examples for ancient copyright from inspiring English sources

There is an ancient copyright agreement that Victor Hugo came up with called the Berne Convention that most western nations are parties to.

Excerpt from In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads, copyright © Christine Toomey, 2015.

Mr. Shanks and his lawyers argued in court that Dr. Qimron was uncovering an existing composition and could not claim a copyright for reconstructing an ancient text he did not write.

Though many are tunes ancient, the modern arrangements are often copyrighted.

Some people bristle at the notion that an ancient practice aimed at health and enlightenment can be governed by copyright and trademark laws.

So much so that when they collaborated in "Lyrical Ballads," he insisted on appearing as the sole name on the title page and retained sole copyright, even though five poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," were Coleridge's.

Content owners will find themselves stuck behind ancient legal walls when trying to stop people from downloading objects online as copyright laws do not apply to standard physical objects deemed "noncreative".

Lawyers who argued the case said that it was the first in which copyright law had been applied in court to a reconstruction of an ancient document.

There are at least three other notable references to intellectual property in ancient times these cases are cited in Bruce Bugbee's formidable work The Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law (Bugbee 1967).

The quality of editing varied wildly, and some ancient authors complain about error-ridden copies, as well as plagiarism or forgery, since there was no copyright law.

David Nimmer, in a 1998 article, argued that the Twin Books ruling meant that an ancient Greek epic, if only published outside the U.S. without the required formalities, would be eligible for copyright protection.