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Here's a great article on copyright from the Writer Beware website:

https://writerbeware.blog/2023/04/14/rights-vs-copyright-untangling-the-confusion

For U.S. copyright:

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#what

https://americaneditor.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/literary-theft-fact-or-fiction

https://www.copyright.gov/newsnet/2025/1070.html

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