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Many people wonder what protection does copyright provide?

Copyright owners have the exclusive rights:

*to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
*to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
*to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
*in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform 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, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
*in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.

There are several exceptions to these rights, the most common of which is [[Fair Use]] described in 17 U.S.C. §107, but there are also more specific limitations describe in 17 U.S.C § 108 through §122 including limited use for education.

==Also See==
*[[Filing for Copyright]]
*[[Copyrightable Material]]
*[[Copyright Notice]]
*[[Duration of a Copyright]]
*[[Benefits Of Filing A Copyright]]
*[[Transfer of Copyright]]
*[[Registering Multiple Copyrights]]

==Contributors To This Page==
*[[Mary Depuydt]]

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