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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The exclusive privilege, secured according to certain legal forms, of printing, publishing, and vending copies of writings or drawings.

14 How. (U. S.) 530.

Literally the word "copyright" means the right to copy a work or the right to the copy.

238 111. 442.