"copy work" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used in the context of school or educational activities (e.g. for a student to do for homework). For example: "The teacher assigned 30 minutes of copy work for homework."
Article gives details connections artists doing copy work at Metropolitan.
It is a violation of the code to copy work, including programs, from other students; it is also a violation to use solutions to homework problems from previous iterations of the same course.
The philosophy behind the program encourages art as a serious, integrated part of a balanced curriculum instead of as recreation or copy work.
"In a time where the women at Disney were basically being relegated to the copy work, she broke through and through sheer talent, showed to Walt Disney and the others that she could be a visual leader.
Put them in little folders--I know this sounds like pretty basic stuff, but I gotta tell you how many new artists that I come across and half the music is back at the apartment or the copy work is so bad that you can't distinguish what are the right notes or the right chords.
Be sure you don't copy work from someone else without permission from the owner of such material.
If the second copy works, it will become the primary copy.
Alongside the forged painting is a signed copy of a permit to copy works of art issued by the museum.
This is why Rumi's voluminous writings, produced at a time when scribes had to copy works by hand, have survived.
"They copied work done by other people".
It suggests how dependent on technology universities have become in their attempts to stop students copying work from the internet.
