copycan

[kop-ee-kan] noun
  1. A state of electronic content describing its ability to be copied - if you have it, it can be copied, the state is copycan
  2. An idea to create a crowdfunding webiste to allow authors to collect money for transferring their content into the state of copycan(1)
  3. A project that was active from 2006 to 2008 trying to implement (2) in order to reach (1) for lots of content. The costs for doing money transfers seemed so high that it lead to the idea of opencoin (see http://opencoin.org)