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" copyright is a creation of statute" what does that mean?


shivajikobardan

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It means someone wrote a law that defines what copyright means. Without that law (or “statute”) then copyright wouldn’t exist. The way copyright gets applied and enforced is dictated by that statute and how courts interpret it. 

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