infringed

[ in-frinjd ]

adjective

1. violated, transgressed, or encroached upon, as a regulation, restriction, or right:

   The costs of enforcing an infringed patent can be exceedingly high.

   He complained that CCTV was an ever more common security measure for which we all pay the price of infringed privacy.

2. illegally copied, distributed, or sold, as in contravention of a copyright or patent:

   A judge dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the allegedly infringed material lacked the requisite originality.

3. relating to or being someone whose copyright, patent, etc., has been violated:

   When awarding damages, it must be considered how wealthy the infringed company could have been without the infringement.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of infringe.

Other Words From

• un·in·fringed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of infringed¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; 1955–60 infringed fordef 2; infringe + -ed ² for the adjective senses; infringe + -ed ¹ for the verb sense

Example Sentences

That’s because the amount of content fed to AI bots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to “train” them is so immense that it’s almost impossible to pinpoint any particular content that has been infringed when the bot spits out an answer to a user’s query.

From Los Angeles Times

Most of those claiming their written content has been infringed assert chiefly that the databases known to have been fed to some AI models are known to include their books or other writing.

From Los Angeles Times

The IPO said it engaged with major e-commerce stores to remove goods which infringed rights or were counterfit.

From BBC

They infringed upon every protection afforded by the U.S.

From Slate

Sprawl development and control efforts targeting ground squirrels have pushed the owls out of the areas they dwell in, while renewable-energy projects and some types of agriculture also have infringed on their digs, according to conservationists.

From Los Angeles Times