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Copyright
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United
States to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual
works. This protection is available to both published and unpublished
works. The Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright
the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;
To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
To distribute copies or phonorecords of the work to the public by
sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical,
dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures
and other audiovisual works;
To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary,
musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial,
graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of
a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by
means of a digital audio transmission.
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