Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is a form of protection grounded in U.S law that grants an author or other content producer exclusive rights over their creations such as books, music and art Copyright law gives creators of original material the exclusive right to further use and duplicate that material for a given period of time, after which it becomes public domain.Copyright law grants original creators the right to control how their work is disseminated, but that right expires after a certain period of time (at which point it goes into the public domain).