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copyrightability

copyrightability noun: the condition of being copyrightable.

Noun

copyrightability (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being copyrightable.
    • “The Office will refuse to register works entirely generated by AI,” says Robert Kasunic of the USCO. “Human authorship is a precondition to copyrightability.”2023 June 28, Matt Growcoot, “Copyright Office Refuses to ‘Register Works Entirely Generated by AI’”, in PetaPixel, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2023
    • While recognizing that copyrightability is determined on a case-by-case basis, in this Part the Office sets out the legal principles that govern the analysis and assesses their application to AI-generated content.2025 January, “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability”, in United States Copyright Office, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2025, page ii

Antonyms of copyrightability

Origin of copyrightability

From copyright + -ability.

Questions about copyrightability

What does copyrightability mean?
Copyrightability means the condition of being copyrightable.
What part of speech is copyrightability?
Copyrightability is a noun.

Words near copyrightability in the dictionary

  1. copyright symbols
  2. copyright trap
  3. copyright traps
  4. copyright troll
  5. copyright trolls
  6. copyrightability
  7. copyrightable
  8. copyrightables
  9. copyrightably
  10. copyrighted
  11. copyrighter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copyrightability (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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