The Five Basic Rights of Copyright Owners
Under federal law, copyright owners have the exclusive right to do and authorize others to do the following:
To reproduce the work
To prepare derivative works based on the work
To distribute copies of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease, or lending
To perform the work publicly (in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works)
To display the work publicly (in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture of other audiovisual work)
In the case of sound recordings, ...
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