Predominantly, creators.
Copyright law is designed to ascribe exclusive rights to the creator of a work.
it protect the rights of authors creativity
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Copyright is designed to protect the rights of creators, by giving them the exclusive right to copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display their works, or license others to do so.
Copyright law addresses the rights of people who create images.
Performance or display of a copyright-protected work is one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder. If you write a song and I perform it in public, the venue pays a fee to your performing rights organization, who pays a fee to you.
Depending on context, the answer to this could be copyright law generally, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, or any number of things.
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Copyright does not protect facts or ideas, but will protect the expression of them.
No. Since 1989 it has not been necessary to put a copyright notice on any work in order for it to be protected
Individual citizens from the power of the federal government and state government.
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