A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives the creator of an original work, or another right holder, the exclusive and legally secured...

The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, © (a circled capital letter C for copyright), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound...

Copyright is the right to copy and publish a particular work. The terms "copy" and "publish" are quite broad. They include copying in electronic form...

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...

been created before copyright existed, or by their copyright term having expired. Some works are not covered by a country's copyright laws, and are therefore...

The copyright law of the United States grants monopoly protection for "original works of authorship". With the stated purpose to promote art and culture...

United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...

Attribution, in copyright law, is acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work. If a work is under copyright, there is a long tradition...

The Copyright Clause (also known as the Intellectual Property Clause, Copyright and Patent Clause, or the Progress Clause) describes an enumerated power...

those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the definition of free cultural work. In most countries, the Berne Convention grants copyright holders...