Definitions

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  • noun A dispute over copyright.
  • verb To engage in a copyfight.

Etymologies

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Blend of copyright and fight

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Examples

  • Steffen: So it sounds like the copyfight is going well, at the WIPO level?

    WIPO – What is it? 2005

  • Copyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto Layton's district in Toronto was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my homeland.

    Boing Boing: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004 Archives 2004

  • One such link recently was to a piece on the BBC news site about copyright and the 'copyfight'.

    Copyfight Michael Allen 2005

  • More significantly, his book articulates - probably for the first time - the emerging viewpoint of what will eventually be known as "copyfight".

    p2pnet news 2009

  • (I can't wait to see the profusion of bittorent trackers, new "copyfight" / Free culture efforts, and newer, better p2p technologies that would result from that.

    p2pnet news 2009

  • Edge of madness: the copyfight between Mobigame and Tim Langdell

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The package includes a lengthy article on the issue, a global map of the copyfight, and the launch of a public wiki on copyright reform.

    Geist and CRIA’s Sook, head-to-head 2009

  • Joi Ito's got a new book coming out -- a collection of photos of people he knows through the free culture/copyfight movements.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Free Culture TV is all videos about free culture and the copyfight.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Following on the 2006 copyfight pledge, ask your MP or political party to take the 2008 copyright pledge:

    Boing Boing 2008

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