Copyright

= Shakespeare famously said " //There is nothing new under the sun// ."= Even some of his works are based on the stories of others; Romeo and Juliet is copied from on an old Italian story. Copyright is one of the most problematic of all issues facing media creators. The purpose of copyright is to ensure that media creators gain an income from the work that they create **and** credit for creating it. There are many cases of people profiting from the work of others. This is usually called piracy. Music and films are the most commonly pirated items today. When you purchase a cheap, or 'dodgy' copy; or download files from the internet, you are pirating some one's property. There is a time limit applied to ownership of a published work, but this does vary. Some confusion about copyright seems to have come from the computing community where it is allowed practice for a purchaser of software to make '//a back up copy//' in case their computer experiences a major crash that would corrupt installed software

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