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Your rights to own your own literary and artistic material, music, films, sound recordings and broadcasts, including software and multimedia.
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Includes the meaning of copyright and different types of intellectual property ownership, and how to legally protect the work that you have created from being copied or stolen.
Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission. You automatically get copyright protection when you create original artistic works. Information about what type of works are included and how copyright works.