Copyright: What is It?
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sunsets in the evening. Now imagine someone finds out about your unique, very attractive cottage one day, and moves in while you’re out. You come home to suddenly find you can’t get back in, and this squatter inside is claiming they own your house, that they built it even, and worse, they’ve started renting out the back bedroom for a pretty penny. To cap it all, they’re now building duplicate cottages matching your design down the road to sell and earn even more money. Now imagine there was no law in existence to give you the opportunity to re-claim ownership of your property and no means to stop the usurper or win restitution from them for their actions.
Transfer this – admittedly crude – analogy to creativity, and that’s why copyright exists.
I like how the Irish Patents Office(1) puts it on their website with regards the Nature of Copyright:
“First,
