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Unethical vs Copywrong - What's the difference?

unethical | copywrong |

As an adjective unethical

is not morally approvable; morally bad; not ethical.

As a noun copywrong is

(nonce) the unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.

unethical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not morally approvable; morally bad; not ethical.
    • The corporation was accused of unethical behavior for knowingly producing a product suspected of harming health.

    Antonyms

    * ethical

    copywrong

    English

    Noun

  • (nonce) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.
  • * 1847 , Freeman Hunt, Hunt's merchants' magazine (page 539)
    • We do it with less compunctious visitings of conscience, on the score of copyright or copywrong , as we are informed by the New York bookseller, that the demand'', since we commenced the publication of our extracts, has been greater than the ''supply ...
  • * 1998 , Network World (volume 15, number 12, 23 March 1998)
    • But immediately we run headlong into the issue of copywrong . For instance, take a sample of some artist and mix it with other samples and sounds to create a new work and you will get a composition that will attract entertainment lawyers like a garbage bin gathers flies.
  • * 2005 , Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement
    • For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs ," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.

    See also

    * copyleft