Copyright vs Copyleft

Copyright (international sign: ©) is a creator or holders exclusive right to manage idea results or any information management. Basically, copyright is “the right to copy a creation”. Copyright also give the probability the holders to limiting creation invalid copies. Commonly, copyright has any limited period validation.

Copyright uses to any art or creation. The creation includes poets, dramas, and any writing arts, films, choreographies (dances, ballets, etc.), music compositions, sound recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, softwares, radio and television broadcastings, and industry designs (in any jurisdictions).

Copyright is one of intellectual rich rights kind, but copyright is different with the others intellectual riches physically (such as patent, that give monopoly rights as invention uses), because copyright isn’t a monopoly rights to do something, but the right to prevent the other persons to do it.

The law to manage copyright usually just includes the creation as manifestation of particular idea, and common ideas, concepts, facts, styles, or possible represented techniques are not includes. For example, Mickey Mouse copyright forbids any forbidden persons to spreads the cartoon copies, but it doesn’t forbid mouse figure creations or the other artistic commonly.

Copyleft is copyright’s word scramble and just like the contrast of each meaning (right vs left), so that the meaning both of the words. Copyleft is a right usage practices to omits the forbid to distribute copies and modification versions of the creations to the other people and it requires the same freedoms to the next versions. Copyleft is use to the creations, such as software, documents, music, and arts. If copyright assumes as the way to limit the right to recreates and redistributes the creation copies, copyleft uses to ensure that everybody that receive the creation copies or versions can reuse, re-modification, and also redistribute creations or derivative versions. Commonly, copyleft is against copyright.

Authors and developers, whose use copyleft to their creation, can involve other persons to develop their creation as the part of continuity process. One of the examples of copyleft license is GNU General Public License.

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