Copyright

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DEFINITION: Are You Violating Copyright? | Handling of External Links | Work for Hire | Employee ActivitiesProtecting Your Own Works | How to Stay Legal | Selected Links Copyright is the ownership of an intellectual property within the limits prescribed by a particular nation's or international law. In the United States, for example, the copyright law provides that the owner of a property has  … 
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COPYRIGHT DEFINITION (continued): …  the exclusive right to print, distribute, and copy the work, and permission must be obtained by anyone else to reuse the work in these ways. Copyright is provided automatically to the author of any original work covered by the law as soon as the work is created. The author does not have to formally register the work, although registration makes the copyright more visible. (See Circular 66, "Copyright Registration for Online Works," from the U.S Copyright Office.) Copyright extends to unpublished as well as published works. The U.S. law extends copyright for 50 years beyond the life of the … 
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