Copyright
All the topics of intellectual property will come up at some point or other in FOSS, but copyright is one that’s so fundamental to all of free and open source software that it deserves a detailed explanation all on its own. But what is it? Here’s according to WIPO:[14]
Copyright relates to literary and artistic creations, such as books, music, paintings and sculptures, films and technology-based works (such as computer programs and electronic databases)…Copyright protects the owner of the exclusive property rights against those who copy or otherwise take and use the particular form in which the original work was expressed.
The United States Copyright Office further clarifies that copyright covers “original works of authorship fixed ...
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