Copyright vs. Ownership — What's the Difference?

Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form.

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be any asset, including an object, land or real estate, intellectual property, or until the nineteenth century, human beings. Ownership involves multiple rights, collectively referred to as title, which may be separated and held by different parties.

The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.

The act, state, or right of possessing something

Of or relating to a copyright

The state or fact of being an owner.

Protected by copyright

A group that owns something

To secure a copyright for.

The state of having complete legal control of something; possession; proprietorship.

(uncountable) The right by law to be the entity which determines who may publish, copy and distribute a piece of writing, music, picture or other work of authorship.

(business) Responsibility for something.

(countable) Such an exclusive right as it pertains to one or more specific works.

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

A violation of copyright law; copyright infringement.

The relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others

To obtain or secure a copyright for some literary or other artistic work.

The act of having and controlling property

The right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons. This right may be had in maps, charts, engravings, plays, and musical compositions, as well as in books.

The state or fact of being an owner

To secure a copyright on.

A document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work

Secure a copyright on a written work;