the point
By placing this sign under a work, the author thereby declares that the work is released from any restrictions associated with copyright. And, more importantly, sees no point in that whatsoever. In plain words, the sign says: “Take it and do with it whatever you want. The author, by and large, doesn’t give a damn.” (“Copydamn”, by the way, seems a decent euphemism — if decent euphemisms exist at all.)
The deeper reading goes back to the ethic of the first hackers, which as early as the 1960s postulated: knowledge must be accessible. To anyone interested, always, without any restriction. It is the natural right of every thinking being, from which it logically follows that forbidding access to information is simply not an option.
Copyright never agreed: it built fences around fruitful ideas and then methodically charged for entry to its “proprietary” gardens.
Today, it seems, history itself is dotting the i’s. If any LLM can, within several minutes, reproduce, rework, or generate from scratch anything at all, then what the hell does your copyright actually protect? A few pepebytes of particularly unique and valuable shitcode? Oh, okay, sorry. Maybe you really do have good, solid code and a clean architecture properly applied (I honestly believe you, even though I'm 45 already, and I've seen things...) But even that kind of code today stands every chance of going obsolete before it can — no, not turn a profit, not even recoup its costs — but at least help to avoid going bankrupt. (That’s the whole game, isn’t it? Life is a 4D analogue of Monopoly, right? What kind of “no” is that? Oh — from the bleachers…)
Guarding “intellectual property” in a world where intelligence itself is becoming public infrastructure — and is rented and sometimes outsourced almost entirely — is like building a fence around the tide, or patenting a rainbow.
Copyhuy rests on a few well-known core concepts: share (your work), adopt (others’ proven solutions), re-use (one another’s results).
Hence: copy, quote, remix, use in any way you like, and feed whatever is marked with this sign to any model. No permission needed; a source link is not required. (Though it will, no doubt, be appreciated — and serve as a clear display of your good manners.) By the way: the original © glyph was copied from Wikimedia Commons — hopefully they won’t take me to court.
Copyhuy is neither a license nor a legal instrument. It is simply a declaration of a personal stance — almost as old as the first hackers, yet more timely than ever.
The name blends “copyright” with a Russian word you wouldn’t say in front of your mother — that should make clear what the sign depicts (and exposes the weakness of idealistic concepts in real life at the same time). Some, however, will see another symbol: broken fetters. That reading holds too. There are others.