The Copyright Act's exclusive rights provision gives developers and publishers the right to control unauthorized exploitation of their works. Multimedia works are created by combining "content" - music, text, graphics, illustrations, photographs, software - that is protected
under copyright law.
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Copyright laws protect the rights of the author, artist or other originator of a creative work to control when and how his work can be copied and disseminated, and it prevents others from appropriating the work without permission.
