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Copyright is an issue for everyone's concern, you may not even realise it by you might be braking copyright laws just by forwarding certain e-mails or copying and pasting information from a website. Copyright gives authors or artists the legal right to exclude others from using their works. It arises automatically when a protectable work has been fixed in a tangible medium such as a floppy disk or hard drive. A poem or picture is as much protected on a disk as on a piece of paper. Foreign copyright owners need not register. Uk owners, however, must register before bringing suit. Notice is not required. Still, promptly registering works provide legal advantages -- as does providing some kind of notice that rights are retained. These matters are explained below, along with basic limits to copyright protection. Copyright is the right to exclude, not to publish. Copyright does not give its owners the right...

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