Copyright
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.