Copyright

Quality:

Copyright - legal concept in common law regulating rights related to original creative work. Article “Copyright” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 11 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.4 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 962^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 349^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2029^th most popular in all topics.

The 1062^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 618^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 705^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2598^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Copyright” was edited by 3 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (705^th place) and written by 40 authors in all languages (2598^th place).

Since the creation of article “Copyright”, its content was written by 131 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (349^th place) and edited by 6238 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1062^nd place).

The article is cited 177 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 28292 times in all languages (5831^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #19 in December 2009
• Global: #235 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #64 in July 2020
• Global: #686 in November 2008

There are 53 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, 2025 (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		88.0165
2	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Opphavsrett		85
3	Bulgarian (bg) Право на тиражиране		76.3783
4	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		66.4387
5	Japanese (ja) 著作権		57.2983
6	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		56.6452
7	German (de) Urheberrecht		53.9869
8	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		53.4273
9	Spanish (es) Copyright		53.2871
10	Finnish (fi) Tekijänoikeus		52.5633

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Copyright		24 754 152
2	Japanese (ja) 著作権		5 606 311
3	German (de) Urheberrecht		4 967 729
4	Polish (pl) Prawo autorskie		3 828 228
5	Russian (ru) Авторское право		3 808 908
6	Italian (it) Copyright		2 389 939
7	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		2 314 126
8	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		2 053 886
9	Indonesian (id) Hak cipta		1 735 577
10	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		1 167 750

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		39 454
2	Japanese (ja) 著作権		4 896
3	Russian (ru) Авторское право		4 753
4	Simple English (simple) Copyright		3 886
5	German (de) Urheberrecht		3 718
6	Spanish (es) Copyright		3 444
7	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		2 854
8	Italian (it) Copyright		2 096
9	Chinese (zh) 著作權		1 955
10	Turkish (tr) Telif hakkı		1 888

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Copyright		1 927
2	Japanese (ja) 著作権		284
3	German (de) Urheberrecht		270
4	Italian (it) Copyright		270
5	Russian (ru) Авторское право		261
6	Dutch (nl) Auteursrecht		258
7	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		229
8	Polish (pl) Prawo autorskie		210
9	Portuguese (pt) Direito autoral		183
10	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		145

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	Italian (it) Copyright		8
2	German (de) Urheberrecht		4
3	Malay (ms) Hak cipta		4
4	English (en) Copyright		3
5	French (fr) Droit d'auteur dans les pays de common law		3
6	Russian (ru) Авторское право		3
7	Simple English (simple) Copyright		3
8	Spanish (es) Copyright		2
9	Hebrew (he) זכויות יוצרים		2
10	Vietnamese (vi) Quyền tác giả		2

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 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information