Copyright law affects one’s right and ability to use another’s work. Its purpose is to    26      thecreation of works by giving authors’ exclusive property rights. Copyright is one of several categories ofintellectual property protection, designed to    27     the creator’s, owner’s, or holder’s right to claim anoriginal work as their own. As soon as a work is written on paper, recorded digitally, or typedelectronically—or anything that can be heard, seen, read, or touched—the work is    28    copyrightprotection, normally for a limited period of time. However, despite copyright law, which    29    individualsfrom copying, publishing, transmitting, exhibiting, distributing, modifying, displaying, or using (whetherfor profit or not) the original creative expressions of others, copyright    30    —intentional andinadvertent—still can and does occur. Overall, we should respect the originality of an individual’s work.