If you start with the assumption that earning a living is a right (the UN only recognizes the right to work, and the right to receive just remuneration for work), then copyright laws help by allowing creators to ascribe value to (and ostensibly derive income from) their creativity and invested time.
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.
Copyright and patent laws protect intellectual property by giving the creator the exclusive right to derive financial gain from the work or invention, or authorize others to do so.
Copy right protects original authorship by by giving the author exclusive ownership over their work. It give the copyright holder the right to determine who profits off their work, how it is adapted and the right to be credited for their work.
It requires permission from the copyright holder or an exemption in the law.
Copyright and patent protection are both forms of intellectual property rights that grant exclusive rights to creators. Copyright protects original works of authorship, such as literary, artistic, and musical works, while patents protect inventions or discoveries. The main difference between copyright and patent is that copyright protects the expression of ideas, while patents protect the idea itself. Copyright gives the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and display their work, while a patent gives the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, and sell their invention.
Because information compiled in a database probably doesn't satisfy the "creative" requirement of copyright, the database right is a separate law introduced in 1996 to protect the investment of building a database.
The copyright holder, or anyone the copyright holder authorizes.
Provided nothing is removed
Copyright regulations for art protect the original works of artists from being copied or used without permission. Artists have the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, and display their work. To be protected by copyright, the art must be original and fixed in a tangible form. Copyright protection typically lasts for the artist's lifetime plus 70 years.
Copyright law gives the creator of a work the exclusive right to copy, alter, distribute, perform, or display the work, or authorize others to do so, for a limited time.
Almost certainly, yes. The copyright laws protect the image of cartoon characters. When you sell it for profit you are stealing the right of the character's author to sell his own work.