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uncopyrightable

adj

Etymology

From un- + copyrightable.

  1. derived from *h₃reǵt-✻ — “to straighten; direct”
  2. inherited from *h₃reǵtom✻
  3. inherited from *rehtą✻ — “a right”
  4. inherited from *reht✻
  5. inherited from riht
  6. inherited from right
  7. formed as copyright — “copy + right”
  8. suffixed as copyrightable — “copyright + able”
  9. formed as uncopyrightable — “un- + copyrightable”

Definitions

  1. Ineligible for copyright.

    • […] The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]
    • […] Keeton, however, resolved that it was the idea/expression dichotomy that forms the boundary line between the copyrightable and the uncopyrightable, […]
    • […] to examine those director contributions that help create that overall feel and apply Judge Hand's abstractions test to filter out the uncopyrightable from the copyrightable […]

  2. That for which no one can obtain copyright.

    • Intrinsic state doctrines are further condemned by Sears and Compco’s second principle for their tendency to extend the equivalent of copyright protection to statutory uncopyrightables.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for uncopyrightable. 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