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noun
False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
