Fundamentally, copyright is a law that gives you
ownership over the things you create. Be it a painting, a photograph, a poem or
a novel, if you created it, you own it and it’s the copyright law itself that
assures that ownership. The ownership that copyright law grants comes with
several rights that you, as the owner, have exclusively. Those rights include:
-The right to reproduce the work
-To prepare derivative works
-To distribute copies
-To perform the work
-To display the work publicly
These are your rights and your rights alone.
Unless you willingly give them up (EX: A Creative Commons License), no one can
violate them legally. This means that, unless you say otherwise, no one can
perform a piece written by you or make copies of it, even with attribution,
unless you give the OK.
Inversely, if you’re looking for material to use
or reuse, you should not do any of these things without either asking
permission or confirming that the work is in the public domain, which means
that the copyright has
expired and all of the above rights have been forfeited. Simply put, if the
work isn’t in the public domain and you don’t have permission to use a piece,
you put yourself in risk of legal action, regardless of your intentions.
Because, beyond fair use and parody (issues for
later essays), the holder of a copyrighted piece has near carte blanche to do
what they want with their work. It’s no different than owning a car, a house or
a pen. One can lend it out to a friend, sell it, modify it or even destroy it.
In short, if you own the copyright to something, you have the same rights that
you do with anything else and, in some instances, even more. After all, you did
create it. It only makes sense that you would own the fruits of your labor.
That’s what copyright law is all about.
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