Intellectual Property - Copyright - What does a copyright consist of ?

A copyright consists of several separate rights, which are either economic or moral. The economic rights are created through different types of exclusive rights to the created work, and the moral rights protect the authors personality and name.

The original author has an exclusive right to produce copies of his work. This right is not restricted solely to the form in which the author originally has created the work. Accordingly, producing copies by changing, translating or modifying, into another form of literature or art or by using another manner, also belongs to the author's exclusive right. This means for example that a photo of a painting is a protected copy of the original painting.