A Copyright is the intellectual property right that underpins the software and the so-called creative content industries (writing, composing, and performing).
With advances in technology, the boundary between software and content is fast blurring - think Dota, Spotify, YouTube and Google search. (Disclosure: I own a minuscule number of shares in Alphabet, parent company of Google, and am closely related to a Google engineer.)
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