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What Is a Copyright?

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In the starting, copyright was perceived as a plan of government to restrict printing. When we talk about the definition of copyright it is a legal right that is granted to an author, publisher, composer, playwright or a distributor to produce or publish their original work in an exclusive manner.

The non-copyrighted work is known to be available in the public domain, and everyone is free to access such work, use it without seeking for the permission from its original creator.

We usually denote any piece of work protected by copyright with a “c” with a circle around it, or else with the word copyright. These two symbols are followed by the name of the right holder and the year when it was first published.

The laws of copyright are governed under the Copyright Act of 1976. The work that is copyrighted is protected for the lifetime of the creator and fifty years after his or her death. But, for any work created before January 1, 1978, the copyright will extend up to December 31, 2002.

Before the enactment of the Copyright Act, there was a common law that granted the copyright protection to all the forms of unpublished works. But after the law came, the rights made available by common law were abolished.

Many people feel that copyrights and patents are ethically and morally incorrect, as they restrain the flow of knowledge based resources from one generation to another. They also say that copyrights reflect monopolistic nature to preserve commercial interests of the rich and influential people.

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