Antedating of "Copyright"

[Fred Shapiro]

copyright (OED 1735)

1701 _Stationers' Register_ 31 May in Ronan Deazley _On the Origin of the
Right to Copy_ (2004) 37  Mr. Awnsham Churchill is and shall be entitled
to one moiety of this book & copy right.

Fred Shapiro


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