Copyright

formerly termed COPY. The exclusive right which the law allows an author (or a person purchasing from an author) of printing, publishing and selling a written composition during a certain period of time. 2 Chitty's Bl. Com. 406-408, and notes.

2 Steph. Com. 94-99. 2 Kent's Com. 373-384.

Curtis on Copyright, ch.

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Called by Mr. Stephen "an incorporeal chattel."

2 Steph. Com. 72, 94.

Lord Mansfield, in Millar v. Taylor, defined "copy" to be "an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing of somewhat intellectual communicated by letters," and observed that this was the technical sense in which the term had been used for ages.

4 Burr. 2303, 2396.

A copyright may be had in maps, charts, prints, cuts, engravings and musical compositions, as well as in books.

2 Kent's Com. 373.

See Curtis on Copyright. U. S. Digest, Copyright.