verb
- securing legal copyright protection for a creative work
Usage: present participle of copyright
Examples
- The author is copyrighting her new novel before publication.
- They spent weeks copyrighting all their original music.
- The company is copyrighting its software documentation.
- She’s copyrighting her photographs to prevent unauthorized use.
- The publisher handles copyrighting all submitted manuscripts.
- Artists should consider copyrighting their work early in the creative process.