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Originally Posted by RobertDDL
In the law of the United States Copyright Law signifies an area of law that protects intellectual property. It is similar to the German Urheberrecht, but differs in several significant points. (...) Copyright in American law, contrary to continental European Urheberrecht, often accords rights of decision and rights of utilization not to the author (for instance, the artist) but to the commercial users of rights, for instance the publisher.
Sadly I'm not qualified to elaborate on this, but the concepts of copyright and Urheberrecht do differ!
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The rights of utilization come to commercial users via a license from the author.
Who may choose to license them, reserve them, or use them themselves. They don't materialize out of nowhere. Copyright terms vary from country to country but they are all granted from the state to the creator. Everything flows from the creator.