copyrightability

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English copy

English right

English copyright

Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlom

Proto-Italic *-ðlis

Latin -bilis

Latin -ābilis

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin -abilitas

Middle French -abletébor.

Middle English -ablete

English -ability

English copyrightability

From copyright + -ability.

Noun

copyrightability (uncountable)

1. (copyright law) The condition of being copyrightable.
   • 2023 June 28, Matt Growcoot, “Copyright Office Refuses to ‘Register Works Entirely Generated by AI’”, in PetaPixel‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 July 2023:

     “The Office will refuse to register works entirely generated by AI,” says Robert Kasunic of the USCO. “Human authorship is a precondition to copyrightability.”

   • 2025 January, “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability”, in United States Copyright Office‎^[2], archived from the original on 9 April 2025, page ii:

     While recognizing that copyrightability is determined on a case-by-case basis, in this Part the Office sets out the legal principles that govern the analysis and assesses their application to AI-generated content.

Antonyms

• uncopyrightability