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[droit, drwa] / drɔɪt, drwa /


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He says that once the droit du sol has been abolished on the island, the lure will disappear.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024

“It’s about what the French call droit moral,” he says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

But the fact is that resale royalties, called droit de suite, are now standard in much of the world, causing the U.S.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2014

The alarms managed to stall the implementation of droit de suite in the U.K. until 2006.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2014

There still, however, survived among the French clergy a firm conviction of the Gallican Liberties, and the droit de régale continued to have the force of law.14—Continuation, § 197, 1.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

The vigilante movement, known as Bwa Kale, formed in late April, according to the Centre d’analyse et de recherche en droits de l’homme, or CARDH.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023

I should mention that Lord Grey seemed pleased by the abandonment of the droits.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough

It is this "original expression" that modern copyright and the modern droits d'auteur actually cover.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

If he was a serf, his goods inured to his master; but from all personal property was deducted the cost of burning its owner and the droits de justice of the seigneur-justicier.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Even in France, the home of the strongest form of the droits d'auteur and of the "moral rights" tradition, the answer to this question was in the negative.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle




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