uncopyrighted
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈkɑːpɪraɪtɪd/
- Specialized
- Many educational resources are uncopyrighted, allowing teachers to use them freely for their classrooms.
Examples
-
The website offers a collection of uncopyrighted music for creators to use in their videos.
-
In a bibliography of references, provided that the bibliography is supplemental to the main content of the user's own copyrighted or uncopyrighted work.
Blog text (3) -
She shared several uncopyrighted images online, which anyone could download and use.
Antonyms
How Copyrighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
uncopyrighted = copyrighted (transparent) = un + copy + right + ed
The adjective 'copyrighted' (having copyright protection) is directly negated by the productive prefix 'un-' to mean 'not protected by copyright'.
Etymology
The word uncopyrighted is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and copyright, which literally means the 'right to copy' a work. So uncopyrighted means something is not protected by that 'right to copy' and is often free for anyone to use.