What is Copyright?
Copyright gives the authors of a wide range of material, such as literature, art, music, sound recordings, films and broadcasts.
The economic rights give the authors to control or use of their material in a number of ways, such as by making copies, issuing copies to the public, performing in public, broadcasting and use on-line. These rights are exclusive. Copyright work is usually the result of creative skill and/or significant labour and/or investment. If there is no protection, it would often be very easy for others to exploit work without paying the creator.
It also gives moral rights to be identified as the author of certain kinds of material, and to object to distortion or mutilation of it. Moral rights are some times called non-economic rights.