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Plural of copyright

regular plural

The plural of copyright is copyrights.

Forms of copyright

Singularcopyright /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/
Pluralcopyrights
Countablecountable and uncountable

Copyrights in a sentence

  • The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.
  • For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.2005, Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement

Meaning of copyright

  1. noun The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.
  2. noun Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.
  3. noun A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.

Full definition of copyright

Questions about the plural of copyright

What is the plural of copyright?
The plural of copyright is copyrights.
Is copyright countable?
Copyright is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copyright (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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