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Coping
Coping: the thoughts and behaviors used to manage stressful demands, rooted in the Lazarus and Folkman tradition. Covers problem- and emotion-focused strategies and meta-analytic evidence for CBT, mindfulness, and resiliency training.
Copper Bull
The Copper Bull is a life-sized standing bull of hammered copper over a wooden core from the Early Dynastic temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq.
Copper Hoard culture
The Copper Hoard culture is an archaeological horizon of northern India, defined by hoards of cast copper tools, weapons, and anthropomorphic figures, dating roughly 2600 to 1200 BC.
Copper Scroll
The Copper Scroll, designated 3Q15, is a Dead Sea Scroll found in Qumran Cave 3 in 1952, listing 64 hiding places of gold, silver, and cultic vessels engraved on nearly pure copper.
Copperhead (politics)
Copperheads, or Peace Democrats, were the Northern Democratic faction opposing the Civil War, strongest in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, led by Vallandigham, peaking at the 1864 Chicago convention, and crippled by Atlanta's fall and Lincoln's reelection.
COPPPAL
COPPPAL (Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe) is a Mexico City-based forum of progressive Latin American and Caribbean parties, founded 12 October 1979 in Oaxaca by Gustavo Carvajal Moreno; it groups roughly 75-80 parties from about 30 countries and runs electoral observation missions.
Coptic Apocalypse of Paul
The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul is a short Gnostic apocalypse attributed to the apostle Paul, preserved in the Nag Hammadi library, in which he ascends through ten heavens.
Coptic language
Coptic (Met Remenkēmi) is the final stage of the Egyptian language, written in a Greek-derived alphabet and still used as the liturgical language of the Coptic Church.
Coptic Orthodox Church (الكنيسة القبطية الأرثوذكسية)
The Coptic Orthodox Church (الكنيسة القبطية الأرثوذكسية), also called the Coptic Church, is the Church of Alexandria, founded by St. Mark in Egypt in the first century.
Coptos Decrees
The Coptos Decrees are Old Kingdom royal decree stelae found at the temple of Min at Coptos, issued by kings from Pepi I to Neferkauhor.
Copts (أقباط)
Copts (أقباط, Aqbat) are Egypt's native Christians, chiefly of the Coptic Orthodox Church, about 10 percent of the population and the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, tracing their church to Mark in Alexandria and the 451 Chalcedon schism.
Copula (linguistics)
Copula (linguistics): the linking element, English be, joining subject and predicate; Higgins's four copular clause types; WALS counts zero copula possible in 175 of 386 languages, with pro-copulas and particle copulas elsewhere.
Copy editing
Copy editing (UK: subediting) is the editing stage ensuring correct, consistent grammar, punctuation, spelling, and usage via a style sheet, distinct from substantive editing and proofreading; a 100-year-old newsroom role now increasingly assisted or replaced by AI.
Copycat crime
Copycat crime: crime inspired by a publicized or fictionalized prior crime, also called the contagion effect or imitation. Defined by a crime dyad, studied via self-report prevalence (about 1 in 4) and scoring methods; media mainly shape crime techniques.
Copycat suicide
Copycat suicide (suicide contagion, Werther effect) is suicide imitating a publicized suicide. Named for Goethe's 1774 Werther; celebrity media reports raise subsequent suicides; Papageno-style recovery stories are protective.
Copypasta
Copypasta: internet slang for a block of text repeatedly copied and pasted across forums and social media; portmanteau of copy, paste, and pasta; earliest dated usage April 20, 2006 on Urban Dictionary; famous examples include the Navy Seal copypasta; also a disinformation repetition tactic.
Copyright
Copyright is automatic intellectual-property protection for original works of authorship fixed in tangible form, covering rights to reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform, and display, with duration, fair use, Berne Convention harmonization, and AI-era disputes defining it.
Copyright Act (Ghana)
The Copyright Act, 2005 (Act 690) is the principal statute governing copyright and related rights in Ghana. Enacted in 2005, it replaced the 1985 law and protects folklore.
Copyright Act of 1976
The Copyright Act of 1976 (Pub. L. 94-553), signed October 19, 1976, effective January 1, 1978, is the comprehensive U.S. copyright statute replacing the 1909 Act: fixation-based protection, life-plus-50 (now 70) terms, codified fair use, and termination rights.
Copyright and access to digitized newspapers
Copyright status, not scanning technology, decides which digitized newspapers readers can open online: US public-domain cutoffs and renewals, European orphan works, and free versus subscription access models.
Copyright and licensing of Bible translations
Copyright in Bible translations protects only the translator's new wording, not the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts, so older versions are public domain while modern ones are owned and licensed by publishers.
Copyright infringement
Copyright infringement is the unauthorized exercise of exclusive rights in a copyrighted work, actionable civilly under 17 U.S.C. § 501 with statutory damages to $150,000 per work, or criminally under § 506, and shaped by fair use, secondary liability, and the 2026 Cox v. Sony ruling.
Copyright law of Australia
Copyright law of Australia: the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), administered by the Attorney-General's Department, grants automatic, unregistered rights, uses fair dealing exceptions rather than fair use, and was amended by the Copyright Amendment Act 2026 adding Australia's first orphan works scheme; no text and data mining exception for AI exists.
Copyright law of Chile
Copyright law of Chile: Ley 17.336 on Intellectual Property (1970), the special statute governing author's rights and related rights. Covers moral and patrimonial rights, amendments through Law 20.435 (2010), the DDI registry, collective management societies, and pending digital-era reform bills.
Copyright law of India
Copyright law of India: the Copyright Act, 1957 (प्रतिलिप्यधिकार अधिनियम), in force 21 January 1958 under DPIIT; life-plus-60-year term, Section 52 fair dealing, voluntary registration, 2012 digital amendments, Berne/TRIPS/WCT/WPPT membership.
Copyright law of Japan
Copyright law of Japan (著作権法), Law No. 48 of 1970: automatic moral and economic rights, life-plus-70-year term, enumerated exceptions without general fair use, Article 30-4 AI/data exception, and 2023 adjudication amendment.
Copyright law of the United Kingdom
Copyright law of the United Kingdom: automatic, unregistered protection under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, with economic and moral rights, a closed list of fair-dealing exceptions including non-commercial TDM, and unsettled AI-training reform following the 2024-2025 consultation.
Copyright law of the United States
U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code) protects original works of authorship fixed in tangible form, granting exclusive rights for limited times; current terms are life+70 years, or 95/120 years for works made for hire.
Copyright misuse
Copyright misuse is an equitable defense in US copyright infringement cases, first recognized by a federal appeals court in Lasercomb America, Inc. v. Reynolds in 1990.
Copyright symbol
Copyright symbol (©), the letter C in a circle, marks copyright notices with owner name and first publication year; ℗ covers sound recordings. Optional in the US since March 1, 1989 under Berne, but bars innocent-infringement defenses.