inflite. Northampton Community College Library Tutorial.

	A copyright is a set of legal rights that an author has over his work for a limited period of time. Copyright insures that the person who created the product is reimbursed for his intellectual work. Books, music, images, sound files, and many other things are copyrighted.
	Granted, it is easy to download songs from the Web or make copies of a book instead of buying it. But no matter how easy it is, those works are copyrighted to give economic incentive to the creators of these works. In other words, if we don't buy the CD from the store, often times the creator goes unpaid for his work.