copy writer » copyrighter

Variant(s):  copy righter

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • Andrew is 22 and is from Glasgow. He has been a freelance copyrighter for the past 2 years, but is considering going back to university to study communication and mass media. (BBC Talents)
  • God this is a crap website. You should consider getting it redesigned by professionals. Your content is lacking in structure and is gramatically incorrect in parts. I suggest a copy righter be used in future. (comment on a blog)
  • Discover how to become an effective internet copyrighter. Download this free eBook to your PC. (2createawebsite.com)
  • Basically I am a one man shop, but for a couple of bigger projects I have lined up I am playing around with the idea of outsourcing a graphic designer and a copyrighter. (link)

Analyzed or reported by:

There seems to be an increasing conflation between _copyright_ and _copywriting_ (the occupation of a _copy writer_). The examples above all use _copyrighter_ where there reference is a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy.

In other cases _copyrighter_ is used in the sense of _copyright holder_, but most of these writers appear to be non-native speakers.

See copyright»copywrite.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/02/25 |

copyright » copywrite

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • A few years ago, the Federal Communications Commission tried to force use of the “broadcast flag” on the manufacturers of any device that could theoretically play copywrite-protected media. (link)
  • All of our images are copywrite protected and watermarked, although the purchased images will not be. (link)
  • starting today, i need to put copywrite on my snapshots.. (link)
  • still being relatively new to the title, I’m finding myself asking questions that are not gonna be answered unless I go back-issuing (copywrite, me, 2005) […] Story is less superhero-y (i’d copywrite that, but it’s pretty shitty, so I’m leaving it wide open to y’all — go for it) than most DC stuff I’m reading (link)
  • That being the case, I request that any use of these materials be cited, but withhold copywrite protection for any non-profit or academic uses, either within the Marshall Islands, or elsewhere. (A Survey of Marshallese Nutrition)
  • www.21c-online.com is published and Copyrighted 2000 by OnLine Publications.com, Inc., Miami, Florida. (link)
  • Disputes involving domains that are copywritten and/or trademarked are handled through the ICANN approved UDRP. These complaints will be handled by an approved third party arbitrator and GKG is required to abide by this decision. This policy cannot be used for non-copywritten or trademarked domains. (link)
  • If a user of the site is sharing copywritten works they do not have permission to share, they are breaking US laws by doing so. […] Recently I have even begun filtering searches for obvious copywritten titles in order to curb this abuse of the site. The problem with peer-to-peer file sharing is that there is no way to find out if what a user is sharing is copywritten (and done so without permission) without actually downloading the content from them. (Techreview.com)

Analyzed or reported by:

_Copywrite_ is employed as a modifier, a noun, or a denominal verb (in the sense, register/display a copyright (notice)). Eggcorn users run into problems when they need the past participle of the verb: both, _copywrited_ and _copywritten_ are common.

Occasionally, we encounter the a stray _copywright_:

> Besides, the notion of “harmonizing patent laws” rings more of globalism and consistency than copywright infringement. (link)

This may be a hypercorrection (see _playwright»playwrite_)

See also copy writer»copyrighter.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris Waigl, 2005/02/25 |

playwright » playwrite

Classification: English

Spotted in the wild:

  • A man who played a part of my youth passed away last week. It was playwrite Arthur Miller. Maybe his most famous play was “Death of a Salesman”. But the one that’s most important to me was “The Crucible”. (link)
  • The haunting story of playwrite Oakley Hall’s life and work, full of rich insights into the loss that occurs when a creative voice is suddenly silenced by tragedy. (Brandenton Herald, Jan. 23, 2005)
  • It follows the story of Barton Fink, played by John Tuturro, who is a playwrite who has a hit show in NY in 1941, which attracts the attention of Hollywood moguls. (link)
  • Barrie is working as a playwrite, a talented one who has not been able to grasp that story that captures the imagination of his audience. (Blogcritics.org)
  • Vision Theatre Players Guild presents the comedy “Trading Spaces” by local playwrite Anna Lussenburg Mar. 3, 4, 5 at the Cochrane RancheHouse. (Cochrane Times, January 26, 2005)

Analyzed or reported by:

Several major dictionaries define _playwright_ laconically as “a person who writes plays”, which doesn’t help to clarify the matter for those who consult them.

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English explains:

> A _playwright_, like a _shipwright_, makes or builds something (the word _wright_ comes from an Old English form of _worker_ and is related to _wrought_); to _write plays_ is to do _playwriting_, although the _playwrighting_ spelling also occurs. Edited English usually insists that a maker of plays is a _playwright_ and that the craft be called _playwriting_, not _playwrighting_.

| 1 comment | link | entered by Chris W. (admin), 2005/02/23 |
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