copycopy

Copycopy is a term encountered in discussions of content management, digital publishing, and information technology to describe the duplication of content or data across multiple copies, channels, or formats. It is not defined by a single standard and may vary by context.

In web publishing and document management, copycopy denotes creating exact or near-exact replicas of a document, asset, or text across sites, repositories, or editions. This practice can support redundancy, distribution, and archiving, but it can also lead to maintenance challenges and SEO issues due to duplicate content and inconsistent metadata.

In computing and data storage, copycopy is sometimes used to describe duplication strategies that emphasize efficiency, such as copy-on-write, cloning with references, or deduplicated backups, where multiple copies share common data blocks.

Ethical and legal considerations include licensing, attribution, and rights management when copies exist in multiple locations or under different terms.

See also: copy, duplication, duplicate content, copy-on-write, redundancy, content management.