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Copyright
Legal concept regulating rights of a creative work
Not to be confused with Copywriting.
This article is about the legal right. For the symbol, see Copyright symbol.
For the band, see Copyright (band).
What is not protected by copyrightFor the Wikipedia policy, see Wikipedia:Copyrights.
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.[1][2][3][4][5] The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form.
Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.[6][7][8] A copyright is subject to limitations based on public interest considerations, such as the fair use doctrine in the United States and fair dealings doctrine in the United Kingdom.
Some jurisdictions require "fixing" copyrighted works in a tangible form. It is often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of ri
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