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copyrightable

copyrightable

English

Adjective

copyrightable (not comparable)

  1. (copyright law) Able to receive a copyright registration.

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Noun

copyrightable (plural copyrightables)

  1. That for which one can obtain copyright.
    • 1984, MJ Touponse, "Application of Copyright Law to Computer Operating System Programs: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin" in Connecticut Law Review, page 665
      [...] The four criteria that Congress, courts, and theorists have traditionally employed to distinguish the copyrightable from the uncopyrightable are: [....]