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Basics: Introduction Copyright law is a branch of intellectual property law and deals with the rights of intellectual creators in their works. The scope of copyright protection as laid down in Article 2 of the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty "... extends to expressions and not to ideas, procedures, methods of operation or mathematical concepts as such." Copyright law protects the creativity concerning the choice and arrangement of words, colors, musical notes etc. It grants the creators of certain specified works exclusive rights relating to the "copying" and use of their original creation. browse Report: Copyright     Intellectual Property and the "Information Society" Metaphor  ... -3   History: Communist Tradition -2   History: "The South" -1   History: "Indigenous Tradition" 0   Basics: Introduction +1   Basics: Rights Recognized +2   Basics: Protected Works +3   Basics: Protected Persons      ... Recent "Digital Copyright" Legislation: European Union  RESEARCH MATRIX