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What is copyright?

Introduction

Respect others' work – have your work respected

Copyright law says that the right to copy, publish, show, play, perform, or change creative works belongs to the person or people who created the original music, story, picture, film, or other work. The creators (or the people who paid them to create it) are called "copyright owners".

Copyright does not protect ideas, but rather the way that they are expressed. Copyright covers words, pictures, music, film, computer programs, radio and television programmes – anything that people have written, drawn, played, sung, or recorded in material form.

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