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Copyright is a form of protection provided to authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work; to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies of phonarecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly.

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