verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of copyright.
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adjective.
(of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright
Word Usage
"The network programmers submitted that this would mean the cable company would then be making unauthorised use of copyrighted programmes, because people could (gasp!) fast forward ads placed in copyrighted programmes that they run."