the legal right to have control over the work of a writer, artist, musician etc. If you own the copyright on something, it is your intellectual property, and other people must pay you to broadcast, publish, or perform it 版权;著作权 The court case was brought to decide who holds the copyright. 这个案子要判定版权到底归谁所有。
The news report is protected by copyright. 这则新闻报道受版权保护。
copyright in : the owner of the copyright in the word-processing program 该文字处理程序的版权所有者
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