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Hi, I'm Nathan Boehme writer and film director with Expert Village. In this series it's all
about copyrights. So what exactly is a copyright? A copyright is a form of protection grounded
in the US constitution and granted by law for original work of authorship, fixed in
a tangible medium of expression. So what does all that mean exactly? Basically it means
if you can create it then you have the right to protect it and legally claim it as your
own. Copyright wasn't established until after the invention of the printing press Charles
the II of England became concerned by the unregulating copying of books. Under the licensing
acts 1662, established a register of license books. The first real copyright act was statued
of Anne which gave the publishers right to written material for a fixed period of time.
After which the copyright expired, today copyright has grown from a simple legal concept regulating
copying rights to a giant legal blanket protecting things like musical recordings, works of art,
computer software and agriculture design.