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 According to the Copyright Clearance Center copyright is government protection provided to creators of original literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, such as books, sound recordings, and computer software (Smith). So what is copyright? Copyright is a form of protection provided by the government to the original authors (Smith). It is available to both published and unpublished forms of work. The copyright protection exists from the time it is created and the work immediately becomes the property of the author (Smith). Duration of copyright The length can depend on different things. These things include the type of work (musician, author, etc.), it depends if the work has been published or not, and if the work was created by an individual or a company (Disney). In most of the world, the length of copyright is the life of the author plus either 50 or 70 years. In the United States the length of most existing work is a number of years after it’s published. How do you know if something has been protected by copyright? There are 3 things each copyrighted work should have: ​ Why does this relate to teens? Every day millions of teens violate the copyright laws by downloading music, videos, and other things using programs like Limewire, BearShare, The Pirate Bay, and other programs similar to those. These programs aren't illegal but putting things such as music and videos is illegal. Also these programs carry a ton of viruses that are capable of crashing your entire computer system. But with these viruses the CCC is able to track down who is putting the material on the programs. What is copyright protected and what isn't Under the Copyright Act of 1976 Section 106 the copyright holders were given 6 rights 1. the right to reproduce (copy), 2. the right to create derivative works of the original work, 3. the right to sell, lease, or rent copies of the work to the public, 4. the right to perform the work publicly (if the work is a literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pantomime, motion picture, or other audiovisual work), and 5. the right to display the work publicly (if the work is a literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pantomime, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, motion picture, or other audiovisual work 6. the right to perform a sound recording by means of digital audio (added in 1995)
 * ©, the word Copyright, or the abbreviation of copyright Copr
 * 1) The first year the work was published
 * 2) The name of the owner entitled to the work (Smith).
 * **// Copyright -Protected //** || **// Not Copyright -Protected //** ||
 * Literary works || Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression; written, recorded or captured electronically. ||
 * Musical works, including any accompanying words || Titles, names, short phrases and slogans; familiar symbols or designs; mere variations of typographic ornamentation, lettering or coloring; mere listings of ingredients or contents. ||
 * Dramatic works, including any accompanying music || Ideas, procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries or devices, as distinguished from a description, explanation or illustration. ||
 * Pantomimes and choreographic works || Works consisting entirely of information that are natural or self-evident facts, containing no original authorship, such as the white pages of telephone books, standard calendars, height and weight charts and tape measures and rulers. ||
 * Pictorial, graphic and sculptural works || Works created by the U.S. Government. ||
 * Motion pictures and other audiovisual works || Works for which copyright has expired; works in the public domain. ||
 * Sound recordings ||
 * Architectural works ||
 * Computer Software ||

[] The official copyright webste [] A fun place for kids to learn about copyright [] Gives you a crash cource on copyright [] Stanford University Gives you blog spots, news articles, and interviews with experts in the copyright field [] The Copyright Act of 1976
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