Copyright
laws are instituted as way to protect intellectual property and their
respective creators or owners. Copyright laws related to motion pictures will
provide the same protection that is granted to all other forms of intellectual
property. However, copyright laws related to motion pictures have been the
focus in recent years, as well as those related to downloadable media,
particularly music.
Movie rights
have been attacked by forms of piracy in which copyright laws are violated
through the illegal copying of movies from the various media sources and
downloading movies from the internet. Movie rights are protected under the
Federal Copyright Act of the United States Code which, among various rights,
grants the owners of movie rights sole ownership over their creations, as well
as the right to control and regulate their use.
