diff -r b88525a8c01d Lib/codecs.py
--- a/Lib/codecs.py	Thu Jul 03 06:25:10 2014 +0300
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py	Thu Jul 03 14:45:48 2014 +0200
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@
                 (self.__class__.__module__, self.__class__.__name__,
                  self.name, id(self))
 
+    def __getnewargs__(self):
+        return tuple(self)
+
 class Codec:
 
     """ Defines the interface for stateless encoders/decoders.
diff -r b88525a8c01d Lib/test/test_codecs.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py	Thu Jul 03 06:25:10 2014 +0300
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py	Thu Jul 03 14:45:48 2014 +0200
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import codecs
 import contextlib
+import copy
 import io
 import locale
 import sys
@@ -1654,6 +1655,16 @@
         c = codecs.lookup('ASCII')
         self.assertEqual(c.name, 'ascii')
 
+class CodecInfoTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_copy(self):
+        orig = codecs.lookup('utf-8')
+        dup = copy.copy(orig)
+
+        assert dup.encode == orig.encode
+        assert dup.name == orig.name
+        assert dup.incrementalencoder == orig.incrementalencoder
+
+
 class StreamReaderTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):