A copyright is a collection of rights that automatically vest to someone who creates an original work of authorship – like a literary work, song, movie or software. These rights include the right to reproduce the work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies, and to perform and display the work publicly. To understand how these rights can be used or licensed, every company need an expert in this. it’s helpful to analogize them to a bundle of sticks, where each stick represents a one of these rights. The copyright experts have the right to keep each “stick” for themselves, to transfer them individually to one or more people, or to transfer them collectively to one or more people. In short, copyright allows the experts to choose the ways his/her copyrighted works are made available to the public. The basis for copyright protection stems directly from our Constitution. The Framer’s believed that securing the exclusive rights of authors to their...