FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Copyright (or author’s right) is a legal term used to describe the rights that creators have over their literary and artistic works. Works covered by copyright range from books, music, paintings, sculpture, and films, to computer programs, databases, advertisements, maps, and technical drawings.

Detailed explanation-2: -In case of original literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works the time period of copyright in India is 60 years in addition to the author’s lifespan. Where there are multiple authors, the term is 60 years post the death of the last author.

Detailed explanation-3: -Copyright protects the rights of authors, i.e., creators of intellectual property in the form of literary, musical, dramatic and artistic works and cinematograph films and sound recordings.

Detailed explanation-4: -What are my rights as author of a work? There are two types of rights under copyright: economic rights, which allow the rights owner to derive financial reward from the use of their works by others; and. moral rights, which protect the non-economic interests of the author.

Detailed explanation-5: -Under the copyright law, the creator of the original expression in a work is its author. The author is also the owner of copyright unless there is a written agreement by which the author assigns the copyright to another person or entity, such as a publisher.