English

Adjective

uncopyrightable ‎(not comparable)

1. (copyright law) Ineligible for copyright.

Noun

uncopyrightable ‎(plural uncopyrightables)

1. That for which no 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: […]

   • 1994, R VerSteeg, "Jurimetric Copyright: Future Shock for the Visual Arts", in Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, page 125

     […] Keeton, however, resolved that it was the idea/expression dichotomy that forms the boundary line between the copyrightable and the uncopyrightable, […]

   • 2001, R Amanda, "Elvis Karaoke Shakespeare and the Search for a Copyrightable Stage Directions", in Arizona Law Review, page 677.

     […] 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 […]