Copyright law protects original works of authorship such as literary works, dramatic works, musical works, artistic works, and certain other intellectual property. It provides owners several exclusive rights including reproduction, distribution, public performance, public display, and creation of derivative works. Copyright protection applies automatically when a work is created and fixed in a tangible form. Fair use and public domain works are exceptions where permission is not required.

2.  Copyright is a form of protection given to
authors/creators of original works.
 This property right can be sold or
transferred to others.

3.  Copyright is a form of protection grounded
in the U.S. Constitution and granted by
law for original works of authorship.
 The current copyright law, the Copyright
Act of 1976, is codified in Title 17 of the
U.S. Code.

4.  Copyright law assures ownership, which comes with
several rights, that the author has exclusively. For
example:
 Make copies of the work
 Distribute copies of the work
 Perform the work publicly
 Display the work publicly
 Make derivative works

5.  Copyright holder may grant permission or
license anyone else to do these things,
without affecting their ownership of the
actual copyright in their work. For
example, an author may permit a
television adaptation of their book to be
made and broadcast .

6.  The law provides certain ways in which
copyright works may be used without the
need to first obtain permission from the
copyright holder - these include:
 Fair use (e.g. to make copies)
 Public domain
 Library privilege
 Copying for examinations and copying for
instruction

7.  Copyright covers both published and
unpublished works.
 Copyright protection is automatic at the
moment the work is created and fixed in a
tangible form that it is perceptible.

8.  Literary works
 Dramatic works
 Musical works
 Artistic works

9. Not everything is protected by copyright
law.
 Copyright does not protect facts, ideas,
systems, or methods of operation.

10.  Copyright protects original works of
authorship, while a patent protects
inventions or discoveries.
 A trademark protects words, phrases,
symbols, or designs identifying the source
of the goods or services of one party and
distinguishing them from those of others.

11.  They want to provide “universal access” to research,
education and culture.
 Copyright was created long before the emergence of
the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform
actions we take for granted on the network: copy,
paste, edit source, and post to the Web.
 The default setting of copyright law requires all of
these actions to have explicit permission, granted in
advance, whether you’re an artist, teacher, scientist,
librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user.
 In order for Creative Commons to achieve the vision
of universal access. They provide a free, public, and
standardized infrastructure that creates a balancehttp://creativecommons.org/about

12.  Under the Teach Act, the Copyright law
provides educators with a separate set of
rights in addition to fair use, to display and
perform others´ works in the classroom.
 These rights are entitled in Section 110(1)
of the Copyright Act, and apply to any
original work an educator wants to use.

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