copyvio

copyvio

English

Etymology

Short for copyright violation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒpiˌvaɪ.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑpiˌvaɪ.oʊ/
• Hyphenation: co‧py‧vi‧o

Noun

copyvio (countable and uncountable, plural copyvios)

1. (Wiki and WMF jargon) A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.
   • 2005 January 3, "ta bu shi da yu" (username), "Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles", in misc.transport.road, Usenet:

     My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.

   • 2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), →ISBN, page 44:

     These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.

   • 2007 February 1, "cpghost" (username), "Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server", in list.freebsd.questions, Usenet:

     Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.

   • 2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release, Usenet‎: