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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]:
copyright
The exclusive rights of the owner of the copyright on
a work to make and distribute copies, prepare derivative
works, and perform and display the work in public (these last
two mainly apply to plays, films, dances and the like, but
could also apply to software).
A work, including a piece of software, is under copyright by
default in most coutries, whether of not it displays a
copyright notice. However, a copyright notice may make it
easier to assert ownership. The copyright owner is the person
or company whose name appears in the copyright notice on the
box, or the disk or the screen or wherever. Most countries
have agreed to uphold each others' copyrights.
A copyright notice has three parts. The first can be either the
copyright symbol (a letter C in a circle), the word "Copyright"
or the abbreviation "Copr". Only the first of these is recognised
internationally and the common ASCII rendering "(C)" is not
valid anywhere. This is followed by the name of the copyright
holder and the year of publication. The year should be the year
of _first_ publication, it is not necessary as some believe to
update this every year to the current year. Copyright protection
in most countries extends for 50 years after the author's death.
Originally, most of the computer industry assumed that only
the program's underlying instructions were protected under
copyright law but, beginning in the early 1980s, a series of
lawsuits involving the video screens of game programs extended
protections to the appearance of programs.
Use of copyright to restrict redistribution is immoral,
unethical and illegitimate. It is a result of brainwashing by
monopolists and corporate interests and it violates everyone's
rights. Such use of copyrights and patents hamper
technological progress by making a naturally abundant resource
scarce. Many, from communists to right wing libertarians, are
trying to abolish intellectual property myths.
See also public domain, copyleft, software law.
{Universal Copyright Convention
(http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/creativity/creative-industries/copyright/)}.
US Copyright Office http://copyright.gov/.
Usenet newsgroup: misc.legal.computing.
[Is this definition correct in the UK? In the US? Anywhere?]
(2014-01-08)