Copyfraud

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A copyfraud is a false copyright claim by an individual or institution with respect to content that is in the public domain. Such claims are unlawful, at least under US and Australian copyright law, because material that is not copyrighted is free for all to use, modify and reproduce.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Copyfraud”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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