Copyright: What is It?
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clarifying what it isn’t.
Now where you live you have products like DVDs, books and CDs all over, and you own them, right? I mean you paid good money for them, right? Sure you did. So you’re their owner.
But does that mean you own the copyright subsisting in those products?
No, of course you don’t.
Its the author and/or the publisher/distributor who retains the copyright. There’s a difference then to owning a copy of a copyrightable work, and owning the copyright of that work itself. If you’re forking out cash for, say a CD, you’re buying ownership of that CD copy of that recording artists album, not ownership of the master recordings themselves, nor the right to produce copies of the CD you purchased either.
If more than one author or creator has been involved in producing the work, then joint copyright ownership applies. Song writing
