ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Uncopyrightable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Uncopyrightable is an adjective meaning (copyright law) Ineligible for copyright.

Meaning

(copyright law) Ineligible for copyright.

More Meanings

  1. That for which no one can obtain copyright.

Example Sentences

[…] 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 […]
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.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include noncopyrightable, unpatentable, uncopyrighted, nonpatentable, noncopyrighted, non-imitated.

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