Monday 23 February 2015

What is Copyright and Why is is Important?

Copyright is a legal right made by the government as part of the law to the country. It benefits the creator of any original work with exclusive rights in which that they have the control over the work by use and distribution with all intentions of enabling the creator of whatever work is specified for normally a limited amount of time. It is property ownership in intellectual form applicable to any sort of original work. It is most seen to be used within multiple authors which each of them hold set of rights to use or license the work in which ever they wish to do so, these people are use referred to as the "rightholders". The rights in which they have access to is repoduction, distribution, public performance and moral rights such as attribution.

Credit to Katy Ward

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