Definitions
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- adjective Opposing or seeking to prevent
copying
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sprigman: In standup, norms about copying change because the mode of comedy changes — standup becomes more personal and anticopying norms emerge.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Sony will also scrap its proprietary anticopying software in favor of technology from the software maker Adobe that restricts how often e-books can be shared or copied.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Companies like Sony and Adobe do not want to abandon anticopying measures, fearing that piracy of books would run rampant.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Companies like Sony and Adobe do not want to abandon anticopying measures, fearing that piracy of books would run rampant.
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As three of the world's four biggest music companies responded coolly to EMI Group PLC and Apple Inc. 's announcement that they plan to sell music online without anticopying software, the European Commission prepared to unveil an antitrust investigation into the music-pricing structure for Apple's iTunes Store.
April 3rd, 2007 2007
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Sony will also scrap its proprietary anticopying software in favor of technology from the software maker Adobe that restricts how often e-books can be shared or copied.
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One reason for its tardiness in music: Until music companies relaxed their insistence on anticopying software, Amazon couldn't sell music downloads that worked on Apple's iPod, by far the most popular digital music player.
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Reproducing a crossing card is easy in part because the government's cards don't employ an anticopying feature, the study found, even though a Homeland Security document issued earlier this year touted the technique and said it would be employed.
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For example, the Seattle-based Web retailer won praise when its store of downloadable music, introduced in September, offered songs without anticopying technology.
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For those companies, the system provides not just revenue from sales of music and movie tickets but protection of intellectual content, because Moxi is a "media lockbox" that embeds anticopying protections on music and videos that run on the system.
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