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- adjective Ineligible for
copyright . - noun That for which no one can obtain
copyright .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Otherwise it makes no difference, even if I were a high court judge and could give you a learned answer that a yell would be uncopyrightable.
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Monday, January 21, 2008 worth reading • the NYT's Joanne Kaufman muses on the uncopyrightable book title. at
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Because the uncopyrightable idea of the law is susceptible to only one form of expression, merger applies, and the expression is excluded from the Copyright Act.
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The model codes in Veeck were not subject to merger because they were necessary to perform some physical function, but because they merged with the law, which is uncopyrightable.
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Otherwise it makes no difference, even if I were a high court judge and could give you a learned answer that a yell would be uncopyrightable.
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I see parallels between the two, which details an important difference: Open Source has algorithms (uncopyrightable) and implementations (copyrightable); Open Data has Data (uncopyrightable) and aggregation (copyrightable).
Archive 2009-05-01 Egon Willighagen 2009
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Thus, a person could not state what the enacted law is, except by quoting it verbatim and that law is uncopyrightable: “Veeck could not express the enacted law in any otherway.”
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I see parallels between the two, which details an important difference: Open Source has algorithms (uncopyrightable) and implementations (copyrightable); Open Data has Data (uncopyrightable) and aggregation (copyrightable).
Open Data: license, rights, aggregation, clean interfaces? Egon Willighagen 2009
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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The Webcasting provision would make it illegal to retransmit Creative Commons licensed works (as well as public domain works, uncopyrightable works like those made by the US government, etc) without permission of the person who hosts them.
Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives 2006
sionnach commented on the word uncopyrightable
Said to be the longest word "in common use" in which no letter appears more than once.
Other candidates include dermatoglyphics and misconjugatedly.
October 21, 2007
seanahan commented on the word uncopyrightable
I wouldn't say those last two are "in common use", although I have a passing interest in copyright law and I've never heard uncopyrightable.
October 21, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word uncopyrightable
I have a familiarity with it as well and I have heard it frequently. Mostly in conversational speech rather than formal writing.
October 22, 2007