copyrightable

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adjective

Able to be protected by copyright law.

Opposite
uncopyrightable
OriginEnglish copyright →
UncommonScrabble 26
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Meanings

adjectivecopyrightable (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecopyrightAble to be protected by copyright law.

    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
nouncopyrightable (plural copyrightables)

plural copyrightables

  1. Anything for which one can obtain copyright.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
uncopyrightable

Origin

  1. Englishcopy
  2. Englishright
  3. Englishcopyright
  4. Englishcopyrightable

From copyright + -able.

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Chicago

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