Copyright

Quality:

Copyright - legal concept in common law regulating rights related to original creative work. Article “Copyright” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.33 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 981^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 342^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2136^th most popular in all topics.

The 1085^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 269^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5654^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Copyright”, its content was written by 136 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (342^nd place) and edited by 6263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1085^th place).

The article is cited 178 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28305 times in all languages (5963^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in December 2009
• Global: #238 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #64 in July 2020
• Global: #670 in September 2008

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Copyright		87.915
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Opphavsrett		85
3	Bulgarian (bg) Право на тиражиране		67.2511
4	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		59.9613
5	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		56.2905
6	Japanese (ja) 著作権		54.1478
7	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		53.0639
8	Finnish (fi) Tekijänoikeus		52.5157
9	German (de) Urheberrecht		52.4591
10	Spanish (es) Copyright		52.3036

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Copyright		25 153 083
2	Japanese (ja) 著作権		5 658 553
3	German (de) Urheberrecht		5 013 396
4	Russian (ru) Авторское право		4 289 312
5	Polish (pl) Prawo autorskie		3 855 690
6	Italian (it) Copyright		2 421 124
7	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		2 339 001
8	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		2 072 005
9	Indonesian (id) Hak cipta		1 746 805
10	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		1 140 214

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Copyright		25 563
2	German (de) Urheberrecht		3 597
3	Japanese (ja) 著作権		2 798
4	Russian (ru) Авторское право		2 658
5	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		2 593
6	Simple English (simple) Copyright		2 264
7	Spanish (es) Copyright		2 227
8	Italian (it) Copyright		1 525
9	Chinese (zh) 著作權		1 492
10	Turkish (tr) Telif hakkı		1 362

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Copyright		1 950
2	Japanese (ja) 著作権		288
3	German (de) Urheberrecht		279
4	Italian (it) Copyright		275
5	Russian (ru) Авторское право		264
6	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		259
7	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		233
8	Polish (pl) Prawo autorskie		211
9	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		184
10	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		150

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حقوق التأليف والنشر		3
2	English (en) Copyright		3
3	Catalan (ca) Drets d'autor		2
4	German (de) Urheberrecht		2
5	Spanish (es) Copyright		2
6	Estonian (et) Autoriõigus		2
7	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		2
8	Azerbaijani (az) Müəlliflik hüququ		1
9	Czech (cs) Autorské právo		1
10	Danish (da) Ophavsret		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information