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Do I own copyright if I own a copyright work?
Not unless you are the first owner of copyright, or copyright has been transferred to you. Copyright exists independently of the medium on which a work is recorded. For example, if you have bought or inherited a painting, you only own the copyright if that has also been transferred to you.  Where a copyright work has been published (e.g. books), many copies may have been sold to the public. If you have bought one of these copies you have not bought the copyright that exists in the content. So, you cannot do what you like with it unless you have the permission of the copyright owner.
Information current as at 12 September 2005.
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