copyvio

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UK/ˈkɒpiˌvaɪ.əʊ/US/ˈkɑpiˌvaɪ.oʊ/

noun

A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.

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Meanings

nouncopyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

plural copyvios

  1. countableuncountablewiki jargonA violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.

    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
    2 more examples

    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)

    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)

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

copyvio. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyvio

MLA

“copyvio.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyvio. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “copyvio,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/copyvio.

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