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copyfraud

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from fraus — “deceit, injury, offence”
  2. derived from fraude
  3. inherited from fraude
  4. compounded as copyfraud — “copy + fraud”

Definitions

  1. False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain…

    False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material.

    • The GPL and GPL FAQ don't say that applying a copyright and license (GPL) to Public Domain works after a trivial modification is copyfraud either, but it is.
    • Made possible because people trust in the veracity of something that at times is nothing more than a chimera, copyfraud is a particularly acute problem when exacerbated by public institutions like museums.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copyfraud. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA