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Copyright gives the creators of certain kinds of material rights to control ways their material can be used. These rights start as soon as the material is recorded in writing or in any other way. There is no official registration system and some forms of Copyright automatically belong to the author. The copyright symbol is © if you do not see this symbol the information could be, and probably is still copyright to the author.

The copyrights cover:-

copying
adapting
distributing
communicating to the public by electronic transmission (including by Internet, email, broadcasting and in an on demand service);
renting or lending copies to the public
performing in public

What is Copyright Protection? U.S. Copyright Office.

The UK Copyright Service - Intellectual property registration centre Intellectual Property:Copyright resources

The Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd (CLA) is a non profit-making company that licenses organisations for photocopying and scanning from magazines, books and journals ... Universities UK, the Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP) and the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) ... for photocopying and scanning for institutions of higher education in the UK .

PRS for Music (Performing Rights Society )is home to the world's best music writers, composers and publishers. Formed as The MCPS-PRS Alliance in 1997 with the PRS for Music brand adopted in 2009, the organisation brings together two royalty collection societies; MCPS and PRS. We exist to collect and pay royalties to our members when their music is exploited in one of a number of ways – when it is recorded onto any format and distributed to the public, performed or played in public, broadcast or made publicly available online.

PPL , (Phonographic Performance Ltd),is the music licensing company which, on behalf of 45,000 performers and 5,750 record companies, licenses the use of recorded music in the UK. This enables TV and radio stations, online streaming services and hundreds of thousands of shops, pubs and others to use recorded music in their business.A not-for-profit company, is the music licensing company which, on behalf of 45,000 performers and 5,750 record companies, licenses the use of recorded music in the uk. For public performance, broadcast and new media use.

'Archaic' Copyright Law To Be Shelved, (UK). May make it legally acceptable to copy things like music that you paid for for backup or use by immediate family. An outdated law meaning millions of people are unknowingly copying music illegally is due to be swept away by the UK Government. Business Secretary has backed proposals to update what some have called the country's "archaic copyright laws". At the moment it is technically illegal to transfer content from CDs and DVD's onto a different format such as a computer or MP3 player. Today the Government is putting the wheels in motion to change this, allowing people to transfer content and make copies for their own and immediate family's personal use. It will still be illegal to download and the sharing of copyrighted material over the internet

Advice: Do not break other peoples copyright, always at the very lease acknowledge the source, usually with with a link to help drive visitors to that original source.

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Read the Duplicate Content section.

The term copywriting has a different meaning.