different between royalty vs copyright

English

Etymology

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *r?g?lit?s, from Latin r?g?lis, equivalent to royal +? -ty.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????lti/

Noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

1. The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
2. People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
3. A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
5. (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
6. (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
7. (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
8. (Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.

Descendants

• ? Danish: royalty
• ? Italian: royalty
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: royalty
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty
• ? Swedish: royalty

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

Italian

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (invariable)

1. royalty (payment)

Further reading

• royalty in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyer or royalties, definite plural royaltyene)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “royalty” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyar or royalties, definite plural royaltyane)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

For Wiktionary's copyrights, see Wiktionary:Copyrights

English

Etymology

copy +? right

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?pi??a?t/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?pi??a?t/
• Hyphenation: copy?right

Noun

copyright (usually uncountable, plural copyrights)

1. (uncountable) 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.

   Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.

2. (countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.

   The artist lost the copyrights to her songs when she signed the contract.

Derived terms

• copyright trap

Translations

Verb

copyright (third-person singular simple present copyrights, present participle copyrighting, simple past and past participle copyrighted)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.
   • 2002, Spider-Man (film)

     J. J. Jameson: The Green Goblin. You like that? Made it up myself. These weirdos all gotta have a name now. Hoffman! Call the patent office, copyright the name "Green Goblin". I want a quarter every time somebody says it.

Derived terms

• copyrightable

Translations

See also

• copyfight
• copyleft
• copyright infringement
• exclusive right
• copywrong

Finnish

Noun

copyright

1. copyright

Declension

Synonyms

• tekijänoikeus

French

Etymology

From English copyright

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.pi.?ajt/

Noun

copyright m (plural copyrights)

1. copyright

Italian

Etymology

From English copyright

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.pi?rajt/, /k?.pi?rajt/, (high-style, less-preferred) /?k?.pi.rajt/

Noun

copyright m (plural copyright)

1. copyright

Spanish

Noun

copyright m (plural copyrights)

1. copyright