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What legal protection is accorded in a copyright?

6/13/2017

 
Copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and patents are all forms intellectual property. Whenever you analyze "property" -- be it real property, personal property (also known as personalty, or chattels), or intellectual property, it is best to conceive the property as a bundle of separate rights.

So what rights are in the bundle of a copyright?

17 U.S.C. 106 describes them.  Generally speaking, a copyright includes a. the right to copy/reproduce the copyrighted work; b. the right to prepare derivative works; c. the right to distribute copies of the copyrighted work; d. the right to perform the copyrighted work publicly; and e. the right to display the copyrighted work publicly.

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