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copyrightable

copyrightable adjective: able to be protected by copyright law.

Adjective

copyrightable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be protected by copyright law.
    • The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: […]1984, MJ Touponse, “Application of Copyright Law to Computer Operating System Programs: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin”, in Connecticut Law Review, page 665

Noun

copyrightable (plural copyrightables)

  1. Anything for which one can obtain copyright.

Antonyms of copyrightable

Forms of copyrightable

pluralcopyrightables

Origin of copyrightable

From copyright + -able.

Words formed from copyrightable

Questions about copyrightable

What does copyrightable mean?
Copyrightable means able to be protected by copyright law.
What part of speech is copyrightable?
Copyrightable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near copyrightable in the dictionary

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

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