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*"When copying is outlawed, only outlaws will have culture."* --[Question Copyright website](https://questioncopyright.org/)
Copyright (better called *copyrestriction*, *copyrape* or *copywrong*) is one of many types of so called "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)" (IP), a legal concept that allows "ownership", i.e. restriction, [censorship](censorship.md) and artificial [monopoly](monopoly.md) on certain kinds of [information](information.md), for example prohibition of sharing or viewing useful [information](information.md) or improving [art](art.md) works. Copyright specifically allows the copyright holder (not necessarily the author) a monopoly (practically absolute power) over [art](art.md) creations such as images, songs or texts, which also include source code of computer [programs](program.md). Copyright is a [capitalist](capitalism.md) mechanism for creating [artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md), enabling censorship and elimination of the [public domain](public_domain.md) (a pool of freely shared works that anyone can use and benefit from). Copyright is not to be confused with [trademarks](trademark.md), [patents](patent.md) and other kinds of "intellectual property", which are similarly [harmful](harmful.md) but legally different. Copyright is symbolized by C in a circle or in brackets: (C), which is often accompanies by the phrase "all rights reserved".
Copyright (better called *copyrestriction*, *copyrape* or *copywrong*) is one of many types of so called "[intellectual property](intellectual_property.md)" (IP), a legal concept that allows "ownership", i.e. restriction, [censorship](censorship.md) and artificial [monopoly](monopoly.md) on certain kinds of [information](information.md), for example prohibition of sharing or viewing useful [information](information.md) or improving [art](art.md) works. Copyright specifically allows the copyright holder (not necessarily the author) a monopoly (practically absolute power) over [art](art.md) creations such as images, songs or texts, which also include source code of computer [programs](program.md). Copyright is a [capitalist](capitalism.md) mechanism for creating [artificial scarcity](artificial_scarcity.md), enabling censorship and elimination of the [public domain](public_domain.md) (a pool of freely shared works that anyone can use and benefit from). It is a mechanism that by definition smothers true, useful [progress](progress.md) -- in a world that advanced technologically so much that it is already possible to freely copy and share information instantly, with zero cost, with anyone anywhere, copyright tries to set up artificial measures to prevent this so as to keep the old ways of allowing only the privileged to copy and publish intellectual works, it is quite literally force sustaining mechanism of Middle Ages. Copyright is not to be confused with [trademarks](trademark.md), [patents](patent.md) and other kinds of "intellectual property", which are similarly [harmful](harmful.md) but legally different. Copyright is symbolized by C in a circle or in brackets: (C), which is often accompanies by the phrase "all rights reserved".
When someone creates something that can even remotely be considered artistic expression (even such things as e.g. a mere collection of already existing things), he automatically gains copyright on it, without having to register it, pay any tax, announce it or let it be known anywhere in any way. He then practically has a full control over the work and can successfully sue anyone who basically just touches the work in any way (even unknowingly and unintentionally). Therefore **any work (such as computer code) without a [free](free_software.md) license attached is implicitly fully "owned" by its creator** (so called "all rights reserved") and can't be used by anyone without permission. It is said that copyright can't apply to ideas (ideas are covered by [patents](patent.md)), only to expressions of ideas, however that's [bullshit](bs.md), the line isn't clear and is arbitrarily drawn by judges; for example regarding stories in books it's been established that the story itself can be copyrighted, not just its expression (e.g. you can't rewrite the [Harry Potter](harry_potter.md) story in different words and start selling it).