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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Just rewording the wiki definitions,
Copyright is a law determining who may copy
Censorship is a law determining what may be copied
Copyright is a subset? of Censorship
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Copyright is not exactly determining who may copy, it's determining the owner of a work of art, and that owner has the right to distribute their property as they see fit.
Censorship determines what content is legally permitted to be distributed.
Copying is not the key here, but using the word makes your argument seem logical when it actually isn't. You can't equate an artist's rights to control their property with censorship.
Censorship restricts freedom of expression, copyright doesn't. Copyright merely lets an artist control what happens with their personal acts of expression.