Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property law that exists fairly uniformly around the world. Copyright is an exclusive property grant on creative works granted to authors of those works for a period set by law, after which the work is no longer protected by copyright and becomes public domain. The term length and conditions for copyright vary. In the United States, the current law is that copyright lasts for the life of the author plus seventy years (or 95 years for works of corporate authorship). Copyrightable works generally include books, audio recordings, film and video, drawings and sometimes works of architecture.