Owe,
I am an American and copyrighted is in common usage as an adjective.
Even the US Patent Office uses the term.
Charles Hill
On 6/8/2012 6:06 PM, Owen Jenkins wrote:
Charles,
There is no verb "to copyright". If there were, its past participle
would be "copyright" not "copyrighted". "Copyright" is a noun and an
adjective. So you would be better saying that the piece is copyright.
There is no such thing as "copyrighting" a work, at least in Britain.
One may claim copyright in a work. One may also own the copyright in a
work. One may register copyright in a work. If you want to know a bit
more about copyright, read this: www.copyrightservice.co.uk .
Whilst the non-word "copyrighted" is in common use on the internet, it
is not English. I'm not convinced it's correct American, either. I
even have my dobts about it being correct in Nigerian English.
While we're on the subject of grammar, the title of the piece should
be, "If my body were a car". Note the use of the conditional tense.
Regards,
Owen,
who has been marking a lot of dismally ungrammatical and frequently
incomprehensible exam papers lately, and is getting thoroughly sick of
widespread, wanton abuse of the beleaguered English language.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hill" <[email protected]>
To: "mogtalk2" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Fw: If my body was a car-non-mog
Warning. This is copyrighted. The author is very quick to demand
royalties and threaten to sue. I know of several local British car
clubs that have published this in their newsletter or on their
website and were contacted by the author's attorney. This is not
hearsay. My own local MG Car Club got one of the letters.
Charles Hill
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