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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:29:36 am | by zcat(1) | Revert |
| Older page: | version 4 | Last edited on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:35:42 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor (__or Software Author__) to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic (__or programmatic__) work.
-Compare CopyLeft.
+Compare CopyLeft, CopyCentre
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Everything you create is automatically assigned copyright (which lasts a limited term - normally from the time of creation until 70 years after the author's death; or if you're in America, for the rest of the Universe's natural existence, it would seem).
The copyright holder then has the right to determine who may make and distribute copies, and under what circumstances. The copyright holder may also sell all their rights to the work, as if it were physical property, or may remove copyright from something and put it in the PublicDomain.
