infringement

[ in-frinj-muhnt ]

noun

1. a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
2. an act of infringing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of infringement¹

First recorded in 1585–95; infringe + -ment

Example Sentences

She said Meta "must stop this behaviour", with the EU asking the firm to "refrain from repeating" the infringement.

From BBC

He added the absence of any infringement decisions under EU or UK competition law meant it would be down to the claimant to prove the market abuse it was alleging was actually taking place.

From BBC

The snap judgment among legal experts was that a federal judge’s dismissal on Nov. 7 of a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, the leader in advanced chatbots, will short-circuit an ever-growing effort by artists and writers to keep AI firms from stealing their content.

From Los Angeles Times

The judge not only dismissed Raw Story’s case; she implied that no copyright holder might be able to show enough harm from AI scraping to win an infringement case.

From Los Angeles Times

Judges have struggled even to define how copyright infringement principles apply to technology that doesn’t output exact copies of copyrighted works but “mimics” them — rather like how the beverage machine in Douglas Adams’ “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” delivered “a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• infraction
• invasion
• transgression
• violation