copyfraud.
False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material.
Meaning & usage
False claims of copyright, such as a claim of copyright ownership of public domain material.
Where this word comes from
A compound of copy + fraud. Coined in an August 2005 article, "Copyfraud" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=787244 by Jason Mazzone, an Associate Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.
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