Understanding Copyright
Posted on July 28th, 2007 | No Comments |
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There are so many sites out there (if not all) that has Copyright © at the bottom of the page. I doubt all of them know what Copyright really is and they just placed the copyright symbol because all sites are doing it and it makes the site more reliable and established. But there is more to Copyright that we need to know.
According to Wikipedia, Copyright means:
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally “the right to copy” an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).
Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or “works”. These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Designs or industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions. Copyright is one of the laws covered by the umbrella term intellectual property.
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