Copywrong

Quick meaning: Copywrong is a noun meaning (nonce word) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.

Meaning

(nonce word) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.

Example Sentences

For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.

We do it with less compunctious visitings of conscience, on the score of copyright or copywrong, as we are informed by the New York bookseller, that the demand, since we commenced the publication of our extracts, has been greater than the supply.

But immediately we run headlong into the issue of copywrong. For instance, take a sample of some artist and mix it with other samples and sounds to create a new work and you will get a composition that will attract entertainment lawyers like a garbage bin gathers flies.

Word Forms

• copywrongs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include copyright, misuse, misappropriation, misuser, exploitation, pirating.

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