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Copyright law serves to protect a person's original work. The holder of a copyright may determine how the work may be copied or used. Copyrights may be applied to literary works, movies, musical works, sound recordings, paintings,
computer programs, and industrial design. Copyrights do not protect ideas, but rather the specific expression of an idea.
A copyright grants the holder exclusive right to make and sell copies of the work, make derivative works, publicly perform the work and to sell the rights to another person. Copyright protection is set for a limited number of years, after which the work enters into the public domain.
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