Sentence examples for simple copying from inspiring English sources

"If simple copying were a protected use," she wrote, "a patent would plummet in value after the first sale of the item containing the invention".

Surely there is more to be said about any of these painters than that they were influenced by Picasso, and the nature of influence goes beyond simple copying or adaptation.

A striking example of the power of simple copying strategies in an evolving environment is provided by the computer tournament described by [23]).

In other words, in a complex environment in which the pay-off to various strategies was, by design, constantly evolving, simple copying proved a very effective strategy.

Integration of the service is substantially facilitated for merchants by simple copying and pasting of a few lines of code into the source code of their websites.

Finally, the human capacity to build on prior innovations and transmit cultural knowledge is often linguistically mediated, and apes and dolphins may have communication systems with far more limited expressive potential, making it impossible to move beyond simple copying and adopt the deferred form of imitation that we call instruction.

Simple copy-and-paste job, that.

But it wasn't a simple copy-paste.

Prices start at about $20 for a simple copy of an LP to a CD.

It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry.

This works for small views where a simple copy of the screen image is sufficient.