लेखाधिकार

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लेखाधिकार एक प्रकारको कानून हो। It says that if you make something, then it belongs to you. If you write a book, or you write some music, or you draw a picture, then the thing you made belongs to you. Other people cannot make a copy of it unless you say that they can.

Copyright is an important law. Copying something is much easier than making it. It is very hard to write a book. But it is easy to copy the words from a book someone else wrote. So many people could do this. But then, the person who wrote the book could not sell it. Anyone who wanted it would copy it. They would not buy it.

But then the person who wrote the book would have to do something else to get money. They would have less time to write books. If they write good books that would be a bad thing. We want them to have time to write books. Then we can read them and enjoy them. So we have to pay for the books, so that the person who wrote them can get money. And we have to stop people copying the books themselves, so that they have to pay for the books.

If you copy something that you did not make, and the person who made it has not said that you can copy it, then you are breaking copyright law. Usually, if the police catch you, you will have to pay a fine to the person who made the thing you copied. If you copied many things you might have to go to prison.

Some people say that Copyright law is bad. They say it does not work well. If you want to sell something you made, you have to take it to a publisher. But the publisher has many different things to sell. They may not want to sell the thing you made. Or they may sell it but not give all of the money to you. But you cannot stop them. Because without them you cannot sell the thing you made. People say this is very bad. It stops people getting money from selling things they have made. And copyright law does not help.