copyfight

plural copyfights

1. A dispute over copyright.

   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

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   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

present singular third person copyfights · participle present copyfighting · participle past copyfought · past copyfought

1. To engage in a dispute over copyright.