In terms of the Copyright and Neighboring Rights Act, Chapter 26:05, Copyright means the exclusive legal right to produce, reproduce, copy, publish, sell or distribute the matter and form of something such as a literary, musical or artistic work, movies, sound recordings, paintings, computer programs and databases, industrial designs, choreography, photography, films, plays and sculptures.

Rights provided by Copyright:

The original creators of works protected by Copyright and their heirs have certain basic rights. They hold the exclusive right to use or authorize others to use their work on agreed terms. The creator of a work can prohibit or authorize:

• its reproduction in various forms, such as printed publication or sound recording;
• its public performance, as in a play or musical work;
• recordings of it , for example, in the form of compact discs, cassettes or videotapes;
• its broadcasting, by radio, cable or satellite;
• its translation into other languages, or its adaptation, such as a novel into a screenplay.