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Re:Esquivalience by pc86 on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @09:34AM (#5557923)
I don't think dictionary definitions are. However, if I make up a word, that is copyrightable as it is my creation, or IP, or whatever term you wish to use.

Similar to putting a fake street on a map, I would think.

Re:Esquivalience by gcr on Saturday April 20, 2013 @03:30PM (#5582523)
Actually, a fake street is not copyrightable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street#Legal_issues

    A United States federal court found that copyright traps are not
    themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court
    stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts
    and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one
    could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of
    reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright . . .
    . If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or
    widely disseminated." (Id. at 733)