Copyright+Law

= Copyright Lawmedia type="custom" key="10011627" =

[|US Constitution, Article 1 Section 8]: "The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." (Note that in the 1700's "Science and useful Arts" would've included education.)

1976 Copyright Act, Section 106 gives copyright owners the exclusive rights:

 To reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords;  To prepare derivative works based upon the work  To distribute copies or phonorecords  To perform the work publicly  To display the copyrighted work publicly