Copyrights
A copyright is a set of legal rights protecting someone who has created an original work in a fixed medium, such as a painting, video game, film or novel. With a valid copyright protecting her work, an artist or author alone can sell the work and distribute copies, by preventing others from doing the same.
As with patents, the power to grant copyrights is rooted in the U.S. Constitution, and provides a much-needed incentive for artists to create and enrich the world with new works. Among other rights granted, for a limited time, the holder of a copyright may exclude others from reproducing and distributing the work, and thereby profit from it. In exchange, when the copyright expires, the work enters the public domain, for all of humankind to use and enjoy free of payment to a copyright holder.
Although typically thought of in the context of traditional art work, copyright covers much more. Any original expression in a "fixed and tangible form" may be copyrighted, including websites, computer code and industrial designs.
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