GNU FDL

GNU Free Documentation License
w:GNU Free Documentation License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of GNU Free Documentation License.


derivative

en-adj

derivative (comparative more derivative, superlative most derivative)

more derivative (comparative)
most derivative (superlative)

/dɪˈɹɪvətɪv/

From Middle French dérivatif, from Latin dērīvātus, perfect passive participle of dērīvō (“to derive”). Related to derive; by surface analysis, derive + -ative.

(law, copyright law) Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.

afledt

(copyright) referring to a work based on another work


counterfeit

From Middle English counterfeit, countrefet, from Anglo-Norman countrefait, from Old French contrefait, from Latin contra- (“against”) + Latin facere (“to make”).

Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.

1878, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Francis Atterbury”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:

‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.

1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD, published 2013, →ISBN, page 53:

Thou drawest a counterfeit / Best in all Athens.

c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Even Nature's self envied the same, / And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame / The thing itself.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(obsolete) That which resembles another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.


counterfeit

en-verb

counterfeit (third-person singular simple present counterfeits, present participle counterfeiting, simple past and past participle counterfeited)

counterfeits (present singular third-person)
counterfeiting (participle present)
counterfeited (participle past)
counterfeited (past)

to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.

(transitive) To falsely produce what appears to be official or valid; to produce a forged copy of.

namaak

To produce something that appears to be official or valid


copyright

en-noun

copyright (usually uncountable, plural copyrights)

no copyright intended

Anyone accused of copyright would have sixty days to opt-out of the Copyright Claims Board process, in which case the plaintiff would have to seek legal action in court.

2019 October 23, Christine Fisher, “House passes controversial copyright bill that could be abused by trolls”, in Engadget:

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(uncountable, informal, nonstandard) A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.


regional lockout

regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)

Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.

(video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

地方停工

prevents the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device


pirate

→ Niuean: pairēti

From Old French pirate, from Latin pīrāta, from Ancient Greek πειρατής (peiratḗs), from πεῖρα (peîra, “trial, attempt, plot”). Displaced native Old English wīċing, which was the word for both "pirate" and "viking".

And Gnutella, Freenet and other pirate tools will offer plunderings beyond Fanning's fantasies.

2001, unidentified insider, quoted in John Alderman, Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music, Da Capo Press, page 178

They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China.

If we untangle the claim that technology has turned Johnny Teenager into a pirate, what turns out to be fueling it is the idea that if Johnny Teenager were to share his unauthorized copy with two million of his closest friends the effect on a record company would be pretty similar to the effect of some CD factory's creating two million CDs and selling them cheap.

2008, Martha Vicinus, Caroline Eisner, Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, page 21:

intellectual property
intellectual property

(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

плагиат

one who breaks intellectual property laws


pirate

en-verb

pirate (third-person singular simple present pirates, present participle pirating, simple past and past participle pirated)

pirates (present singular third-person)
pirating (participle present)
pirated (participle past)
pirated (past)

If a book is pirated there is a remedy for the author and publisher; if a photograph or an engraving is made of a picture without permission the law protects the painter.

1904, Edward Elgar, in a speech on 4 July, 1904:

(transitive, copyright law) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

Not willing to pay full price for the computer game, Heidi pirated a copy.

In the 1970s cable companies began to pirate some of the football games that the networks had contracted to televise.

2002, John Sayle Watterson, College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy, page 343:

College students, with their limited budgets, often pirate software to save their money for buying more important items (like beer).

2004, Wally Wang, Steal this File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You about File Sharing:

Many college students now expect to sample, if not outright pirate, movies, music, software, and TV programs.

2007, Diane Kresh, Council on Library, Information Resources, The Whole Digital Library Handbook, page 85:

(transitive, copyright law) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.


warez

en-noun

warez (usually uncountable, plural warez)

The leetspeak form of wares, as a contraction of software.

By the end of the day Mad Hatter, a ringleader of the software piracy group called the Inner Circle, will have poured 300 Mbytes of illegal “warez” onto the Internet.

1997 April 1, David McCandless, “Warez Wars”, in Wired, →ISSN:

Too many gamers see nothing wrong with downloading “warez” (usually pronounced “wares,” but also “wah-rez”), retail software products that have been “ripped” to make them smaller and remove copy protection.

1999 April, T. Liam McDonald, “WaReZ the Logic?”, in Maximum PC, →ISSN, page 41:

Warez appeared in the 1980s with the advent of Bulletin Board Systems.

2012, Eric Diehl, Securing Digital Video […] , Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 16:

(Internet slang, leetspeak, dated) Software that is illegally obtained or distributed.

ვარეზი

software illegally obtained or distributed


copyleft

copyleft (usually uncountable, plural copylefts)

A pun on copyright, which refers to using copyright laws for purposes that are in some ways contrary to copyright's original intent.

They believe in copyleft because they want their software to be used freely by anyone.

The philosophy of using copyrights to enforce freedom of information, especially software source code.


FDL

Free Documentation License
w:GNU Free Documentation License

(copyright law) Initialism of Free Documentation License.


public domain

From public (“able to be seen or known by everyone”) + domain (“field or sphere of activity, expertise, or influence”).

公有的

As the copyright in this book has lapsed, it is now in the public domain.

(also attributively) Often preceded by in the.

The state of not being owned by anyone, and thus freely usable by everyone.

(specifically, law) The realm of intellectual property which is not or no longer protected by copyrights or patents, and thus over which no person can establish a proprietary interest.


blur

en-verb

blur (third-person singular simple present blurs, present participle blurring, simple past and past participle blurred)

blurs (present singular third-person)
blurring (participle present)
blurred (participle past)
blurred (past)

From earlier blurre, probably an alteration of blear, from Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian (attested in āblered (“made bare, made bald”)), from Proto-West Germanic *blaʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *blazjaną (“to make pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“pale”). Compare Scots blore, bloar (“to blur, cover with blots”), Low German bleeroged (“blear-eyed”). More at blear.

inh

(copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it causes confusion between them.


plagiarize

en-verb

plagiarize (third-person singular simple present plagiarizes, present participle plagiarizing, simple past and past participle plagiarized)

plagiarizes (present singular third-person)
plagiarizing (participle present)
plagiarized (participle past)
plagiarized (past)

From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).

(transitive, intransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.

اِنْتَحَلَ

use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing/speech


copyvio

en-noun

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.

2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet):

These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.

2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44

Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.

2007 February 1, cpghost, “Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server”, in list.freebsd.questions (Usenet):

2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release (Usenet):

(wiki jargon, originally Wikimedia jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.


tarnish

en-verb

tarnish (third-person singular simple present tarnishes, present participle tarnishing, simple past and past participle tarnished)

tarnishes (present singular third-person)
tarnishing (participle present)
tarnished (participle past)
tarnished (past)

From Middle English ternysshen, from Old French terniss-, stem of ternir (“to make dim, make wan”), borrowed from Old High German *ternen, tarnen, from Proto-West Germanic *darnijan (“to conceal”). Doublet of dern and darn.

der

(copyright law) To use a sign, image, expression, etc. sufficiently close to a trademarked one that it brings disrepute to it.


ASL

Apache Software License
w:Apache License

(software, copyright law) Initialism of Apache Software License.


first e-rights

2003, Technically you have used "first e-rights" and can no longer sell it as an unpublished story/article ... Once a story is printed on the web, first e-rights have been used but first print rights are still available. — Tina Morgan Know Your Rights, appearing in Fiction Factor: The online magazine for fiction writers.

(copyright law) The right to publish a work for the first time in electronic form.


piracy

en-noun

piracy (countable and uncountable, plural piracies)

From Medieval Latin pīrātia, from Classical Latin pīrāta + ia, or Ancient Greek πειρατεία (peirateía).

Some video game consoles use specially designed cartridges to make software piracy more difficult.

2022 March 11, “Russia has reportedly legalised piracy in the face of economic sanctions”, in GamesIndustry.biz:

The unauthorized duplication of goods protected by intellectual property law.

bootlegging

breaking intellectual property law by making unauthorized copies


intellectual property

intellectual property (usually uncountable, plural intellectual properties)

According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

(uncountable) Any product of someone's intellect that has commercial value: a piece of literature, a painting, an invention, a trademark, a trade secret, etc. Works protected under intellectual property law, and accorded intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents.

One area of current change concerns intellectual properties and intellectual property rights.
"Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture"

For technology companies, a well-constructed system for managing intellectual properties is fundamental to being able to extract full value from the properties
"Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation" By Patrick H. Sullivan

(countable) Any individual work that is protected under intellectual property law.


TRIPS

(copyright law, international law) The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights.


DRM

digital rights management
digital rights management#English

digital restrictions management
digital restrictions management#English

digital handcuffs
digital handcuffs#English

(media) Initialism of digital rights management.

(derogatory) Initialism of digital restrictions management. (digital handcuffs; seen as undesirably restrictive)


uncopyrightable

[…] The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]

1984, MJ Touponse, “Application of Copyright Law to Computer Operating System Programs: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin”, in Connecticut Law Review, page 665:

[…] Keeton, however, resolved that it was the idea/expression dichotomy that forms the boundary line between the copyrightable and the uncopyrightable, […]

1994, R VerSteeg, “Jurimetric Copyright: Future Shock for the Visual Arts”, in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, page 125:

[…] to examine those director contributions that help create that overall feel and apply Judge Hand's abstractions test to filter out the uncopyrightable from the copyrightable […]

2001, R Amanda, “Elvis Karaoke Shakespeare and the Search for a Copyrightable Stage Directions”, in Arizona Law Review, page 677:

(copyright law) Ineligible for copyright.


Campbell

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
* As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
* (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

(US, law, copyright law, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.. A 1994 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that commercial parodies can be subject to fair use.


fair use

fair use (countable and uncountable, plural fair uses)

Coordinate term: fair dealing (counterpart in various Commonwealth countries; stricter but akin)

Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use,” the legal doctrine that permits the use of copyrighted material under certain circumstances, enabling parody, quotation, and derivative works that enrich the culture.

2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic:

(copyright law) A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.


dilution

dilution (countable and uncountable, plural dilutions)

trademark dilution
trademark dilution#English

(copyright law) Short for trademark dilution.


ashcan

Describing a comic book originally published solely to retain ownership of a trademark, not intended for general release; later used for promotional comic books intended for limited release to the public.


bootlegger

From bootleg + -er. Originally a nickname given to smugglers in King George III's reign, derived from the smugglers' custom of hiding packages of valuables in the legs of their large sea-boots when dodging the king's coastguardsmen.

One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

незако́нный торго́вец спиртны́ми напи́тками


BSD

Initialism of Berkeley Software Distribution.

initialism

(copyright law) Ellipsis of BSD license.


copyright infringement

en-noun

copyright infringement (countable and uncountable, plural copyright infringements)

(copyright law) The unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.


copyrightable

The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]

(copyright law) Able to be protected by copyright law.


all rights reserved

(idiomatic, law) The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.


copyrightability

(copyright law) The condition of being copyrightable.


high seas

I was out on the high seas yesterday and got myself a new mathematics book.

(slang) Regions of the Internet in which piracy (i.e. copyright infringement) is prevalent.


GPL

General Public License
w:GNU General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of General Public License.


GPL

en-verb

GPL (third-person singular simple present GPLs, present participle GPLing, simple past and past participle GPLed)

GPLs (present singular third-person)
GPLing (participle present)
GPLed (participle past)
GPLed (past)

(computing, copyright law, transitive, colloquial) To release under the GPL.


playright

en-noun

playright (countable and uncountable, plural playrights)

Copyright in the specific sense is, however, of less importance to the dramatic author than playright or performing right[…]

1912, Richard Rogers Bowker, Copyright, Its History and Its Uses, page 162:

(law, dated) The exclusive right to perform a dramatic work


e-right

I sold the magazine rights to the story, but not the e-rights.

(copyright law, usually in the plural) The right to publish a given work in electronic form.


uncopyrightability

(copyright law) The condition of being uncopyrightable.


copy protection

A software or hardware mechanism designed to prevent copying.


digital rights management

(computing) A set of access control technologies that restrict the use of proprietary hardware and digital files by an end user, so as to enforce copyright restrictions.

デジタル著作権管理

でじたるちょさくけんかんり


tivoization

/ˈtiːvəʊ.ɪˌzeɪʃən/

From TiVo + -ization. Coined by Richard Stallman in 2007, in reference to TiVo's use of GNU GPL-licensed software on the TiVo brand digital video recorders.

(computing, copyright law) The creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.


region-free

a region-free DVD player

Made or distributed without the ability to enforce regional lockout.


Creative Commons

A set of licenses intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.


CTM

CTM (countable and uncountable, plural CTMs)

(copyright law) Initialism of community trademark.


anticopyright

en-adj

anticopyright (comparative more anticopyright, superlative most anticopyright)

more anticopyright (comparative)
most anticopyright (superlative)

Opposing the concept of copyright, or the nature of current copyright laws


BSL

The BSL is a ‘Source Available’ license that freely allows using the code for development and other non-production work such as testing. Production use of the software requires a commercial license from Lightbend.

2022 September 8, Paul Kunert, quoting Jonas Bonér, “Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights”, in The Register:

(software, copyright law) Initialism of Business Source License.


anti-copyright

anti-copyright (comparative more anti-copyright, superlative most anti-copyright)

more anti-copyright (comparative)
most anti-copyright (superlative)


copywrong

en-noun

copywrong (countable and uncountable, plural copywrongs)

We do it with less compunctious visitings of conscience, on the score of copyright or copywrong, as we are informed by the New York bookseller, that the demand, since we commenced the publication of our extracts, has been greater than the supply...

1847, Freeman Hunt, Hunt's merchants' magazine, page 539:

But immediately we run headlong into the issue of copywrong. For instance, take a sample of some artist and mix it with other samples and sounds to create a new work and you will get a composition that will attract entertainment lawyers like a garbage bin gathers flies.

1998 March 23, Network World, volume 15, number 12:

For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.

2005, Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement:

(nonce word) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.


Mickey Mouse Protection Act

the Mickey Mouse Protection Act (canonical)

So called because it served to prevent Disney's Mickey Mouse character from entering the public domain for a further period.

(informal, derogatory) The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.


copyright symbol

copyright symbol (plural copyright symbols)

The symbol ©, a circumscribed letter c, indicating that a work is copyrighted.


copyleft symbol

copyleft symbol (plural copyleft symbols)

The symbol 🄯, a horizontally mirrored copyright symbol, denoting copyleft.


some rights reserved

1997, “Perri 6”, Demos, Escaping Poverty: From Safety Nets to Networks of Opportunity, page footer,
This page is covered by the Demos open access licence. Some rights reserved.

The owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.


GNU GPL

GNU General Public License
w:GNU General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of GNU General Public License.


LGPL

Lesser General Public License
w:GNU Lesser General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Lesser General Public License.


MIT license

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(law, software) A free-software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


BSD license

Any of a family of free software licenses comprising the license of Berkeley Software Distribution and derivative licenses.


strong copyleft

A form of copyleft where all derived works inherit the copyleft licence.


weak copyleft

A form of copyleft where not all derived works inherit the copyleft licence.


CD key

A serial key of a program to be installed from a compact disc.


serial key

(computing) A string of characters or equivalent access code that must be input into a program in order to activate it.


no rights reserved

Modelled on earlier all rights reserved.

The owner of a work, or other copyright holder, releases the work into the public domain.


creative work

(chiefly copyright law) A tangible manifestation of creative effort, such as literature, music, paintings, and software.


end user license agreement

end user license agreement (plural end user license agreements)

(law, copyright law) A contract between the manufacturer or copyright holder, also commonly called the licensor, of an end product and a person, commonly called the end user, that specifies the licenses under which the end user may utilize the end product, subject to restrictions as specified in the contract or agreement.

最終用戶許可協議

a contract between the manufacturer or copyright holder


copyfight

Unless users and developers of open source software join the copyfight, they will find the new reality of copyright law restricting not just their freedom to play blockbuster movies, but also their core freedoms to write and run interdependent and interoperable software.

2005, Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, Mark Stone, Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution, page 150:

For participant-fans, they valorize interventionist and interruptive art and music that broaden the discussion of the copyfights raging within the culture industries.

2010, Patrick Burkart, Music and cyberliberties:


utility model

(copyright law law) An intellectual property right in certain legal systems, to protect invention, very similar to the patent, but usually with shorter term and less stringent patentability requirements.


juarez

Blend of wares + Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on that country's border with the United States. The border is often publicly associated with illicit trafficking.

(Internet slang, leetspeak, offensive) Alternative form of warez


juarez

en-verb

juarez (third-person singular simple present juarezes, present participle juarezing, simple past and past participle juarezed)

juarezes (present singular third-person)
juarezing (participle present)
juarezed (participle past)
juarezed (past)


geo-blocking

From geo- + blocking or geo-block + -ing.

(computing, Internet) The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.


file off the serial numbers

file off the serial numbers (third-person singular simple present files off the serial numbers, present participle filing off the serial numbers, simple past and past participle filed off the serial numbers)

files off the serial numbers (present singular third-person)
filing off the serial numbers (participle present)
filed off the serial numbers (participle past)
filed off the serial numbers (past)

From the practice of filing the serial numbers off of firearms in order to make their origin and ownership difficult to trace.

For a while now, I've been pottering away at a Star Wars fanfic novella ([URL redacted], if you must know). I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.

1998 March 6, Julie Lim, “Help!”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

I've heard a rumor that Bujold started the Barrayar series as Star Trek fanfic, and there's enough resemblance there to make that seem very plausible to me. Suppose she did. By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.

2002 January 15, David Thornley, “Re: harry potter”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet):

I say “may have” because [E. L.] James has “filed off the serial numbers” of her fanfic.

2012 April 1, Elizabeth Tai, “Quantity over quality?”, in The Star, Malaysia:

(fandom slang, idiomatic) To remove the copyrighted elements from an existing work of fan fiction so that it may be commercially published as original fiction.


freedom of panorama

(copyright law) A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.


WTFPL

w:Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License

(computing) Initialism of Do What the Fuck You Want To Public License.


fair dealing

Coordinate term: fair use (counterpart in US, broader but akin)

Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 30(1)

(law) a rule of intellectual property law, such as in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries, that permits one party to make use of another party's copyright-protected work under narrowly defined circumstances.


p.m.a.

post mortem auctoris
post mortem auctoris#English

(copyright law) Initialism of post mortem auctoris.


pma

(copyright law) Alternative form of p.m.a.


post mortem auctoris

Borrowed from Latin post mortem auctoris.

(chiefly copyright law) After the death date of the author of a work.


public domainness

(rare, informal) The state or quality of being in the public domain, free of copyright restrictions.


orphan work

(copyright law) A copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable.


neighbouring right

en-noun

neighbouring right (plural neighbouring rights)

(copyright law) Synonym of related right


related right

(copyright law, usually in the plural) A right of a creative work not connected with the work's actual author.


WFH

WFH (countable and uncountable, plural WFHs)

(US copyright law) Initialism of work for hire.


Public Domain Day

First mentioned by Lawrence Lessig in 2004, but it is unclear when observance began.

An annual observance on January 1 of when copyrights expire and works enter into the public domain. Copyrights usually expire every year on January 1 based on the individual copyright laws of each country.


sharing is caring

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sharing is caring.wav

Sharing is Caring [title]

2012, Dan Bull (lyrics and music), “Sharing is Caring”:

There are also hundreds of books and papers written by hundreds of very smart people debating whether or not it is right to prevent the sharing of protected digital works and whether it would instead be better if we all just lived in a utopian society where creative industry capitalism is banished and sharing is caring.

2014, Emma Sadleir, Tamsyn de Beer, Don't Film Yourself Having Sex, Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN:


rule of the shorter term

(law) A feature of the copyright law of some countries, whereby the duration of protection granted by the country in question to a work created in a foreign country is limited to no greater than that which it would have received in its country of origin, even if it would have been eligible for a greater duration had it been created in the country in question; the rule that, when a copyrighted work passes into the public domain in its country of origin, it will also pass into the public domain in the country in question if it has not already done so.


MPL

Mozilla Public License
w:Mozilla Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Mozilla Public License.


copyreich

Between that article and the arogant^([sic]) article about copyreich and trademarx enforcement, I was beginning to wonder why I still get that magazine. In fact, will I be on their mauling list forever?

1995 March 1, Mark W. Sandifer, “Spring Enthusiast”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Ah, I forgot to check out one of the companies in the copyreich at the bottom of the page. Outflow? Sounds spammish. Oh *them*! They've been mentioned here before.

2004 February 22, Android Cat, “Co$ uses Amnesty International”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

shsshhh...you're probably infringing on someone's copyreich.

2008 June 22, Crash Gordon, “home alarm system?”, in alt.security.alarms (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

(informal, derogatory) Copyright, regarded as an oppressive system.


CC BY-NC

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license.


CC BY-NC-ND

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license.


CC BY-SA

Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.


CC BY-NC-SA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license.


CC BY-ND

Creative Commons
Creative Commons#English

Abbreviation of Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license.


threshold of originality

threshold of originality (plural thresholds of originality)

(copyright law) A threshold of creativity and originality that has to be met in order for a work to be considered a work of art and thus copyrightable.


license laundering

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-license laundering.wav

(Wikimedia jargon, copyright law) The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.


trademark infringement

trademark infringement (plural trademark infringements)

copyright infringement
copyright infringement#English

(copyright law) Alternative form of copyright infringement


trademark dilution

trademark dilution (plural trademark dilutions)

(copyright law) The use of an image, sign, expression, etc. sufficiently close to one that is trademarked that it causes confusion ("blurs") about or brings disrepute ("tarnishes") to the trademarked item.


NPE

Therefore, arguably, the existence of NPEs helps facilitate and regulate supply and demand.

2019, Ben Depoorter, Peter Menell, David Schwartz, editors, Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454:

(copyright law) Initialism of non-practicing entity.


SSPL

Server Side Public License
w:Server Side Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Server Side Public License.


EUPL

European Union Public License
w:European Union Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of European Union Public License.