===== Copyright =====
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**Copyright** refers to the legal right of the owner of [[ocs:private:99.append:02.glossary:i:intelip]]. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.


Copyright law gives creators of original material the exclusive right to further use and duplicate that material for a given amount of time, at which point the copyrighted item becomes public domain.


Source: [[https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/copyright.asp ]]


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