Copyright: What is It?
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could come along and copy it, claim it as their own and very likely make money from it, and without fear of consequences because there was no law making their actions punishable. You’d very soon give up creating wouldn’t you? What’d be the point of all that hard work when others could reap the credit and the reward?
Fortunately for us, that’s not how it is in the real world. Lets read again what the Irish Patents Office says; that it’s a “…human right to secure a fair return for their creativity and investment.” I say again, nicely put.
So that’s why copyright exists.
But just what is copyright?
Copyright is…
If you consider my crude cottage analogy again; it essentially establishes what copyright is… a property right. But a property right that applies, not to land or buildings or vehicles, but to products of the
