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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

What do they mean?

I have a sentence from the notice of the OWL Online Writing Lab and am wondering what the underlined words mean? Help. Or it would be better if you can explain to me what it is trying to say. Thank you.

You are free to link to these handouts, print them out, and distribut them to your classes as long as copyright information remains intact and as long as you are not distributing them for profit.
  

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The meaning of the sentence is that if you want to copy the handout, you have to make sure that the author of the handout is given credit for the work. Copyright is the legal term for ownership of a recorded work. Normally (with some exceptions), it is illegal to make copies of someone else's writing (or any form of expression) without their permission.

  • The meaning of the sentence is that if you want to copy the handout, you have to make sure that the author of the handout is given credit for the work.
  • Copyright is the legal term for ownership of a recorded work.
  • Normally (with some exceptions), it is illegal to make copies of someone else's writing (or any form of expression) without their permission.
  • The Copyright Information is probably the Author's name, the publisher's name, and the year that it was copyrighted.
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The meaning of the sentence is that if you want to copy the handout, you have to make sure that the author of the handout is given credit for the work.

Copyright is the legal term for ownership of a recorded work. Normally (with some exceptions), it is illegal to make copies of someone else's writing (or any form of expression) without their permission.

The Copyright Information
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yes, indeed ...

copyright

Etymology: 1copy + right
: the exclusive, legally secured right to reproduce (as by writing or printing), publish, and sell the matter and form of a literary, musical, or artistic work (as by dramatizing, novelizing, performing or reciting in public, or filming) for a period in the United States of 28 years with a
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Copyright actually lasts for the creator's lifetime + 70 years.

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html#duration

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