Protection Provided By A Copyright

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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.

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