Etymology

copyfraud

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Today it means: False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material. Full definition →

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The story

A compound of copy + fraud. Coined in an August 2005 article, "Copyfraud" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244 by Jason Mazzone, an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.

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