👉 Copyrights are legal protections granted to creators of original works, such as literary, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual creations. When someone creates a work, they automatically gain copyright ownership unless they choose to transfer those rights through a formal registration process, which is not always required but can provide additional legal benefits. Copyrights protect the expression of ideas rather than the ideas themselves, giving creators exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, and create derivative works based on their creations. These rights include the ability to control how their work is used and to profit from its use, but they do not prevent others from using the underlying ideas or concepts. Copyrights typically last for the life of the author plus a certain number of years (often 70 years in many countries), after which the work enters the public domain, allowing anyone to freely use it without permission.
