Copyright provides legal protection for people who express ideas and information in certain forms that include writing, music, visual images, moving images and computer programs.

It is designed to prevent the unauthorised use by others of a work that is the original form in which the idea or information has been expressed by the creator.

Copyright protection is free, there is no registration system. But it is advisable for copyright owners to place a copyright notice in a prominent place on their work.

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