So, what exactly is a copyright?

A copyright is a legal term that describes the

rights that authors and artists have over their literary and artistic works.
Books, music, paintings, sculpture, films, computer software, databases,
advertisements, maps, artistic drawings, and other literary and artistic works
are all protected by copyright.

Copyrights help to protect someone's works by ensuring that only the creators
have the privilege to post, display, repost, use and reproduce their creative
works. copyrights also help to value someone's creative works by preventing
thieves from stealing them not only online but also in the real world. Thieves
online can be sued by just posting other works because copyrights will
immediately notice that someone on the internet posted the work that has
been registered to them. That user will be blocked immediately and copyrights
can sue the person who used someone's work without crediting the owner
and that person's account can be restricted or suspended online for months
or permanently even just reposting others' works on facebook or other social
media platforms copyrights will restrict those users accounts and can be
closed or suspended forever.

Copyright not only protects the owners of the work, but it also allows people to earn 
money from it. For example, "sampling" is very popular in the music industry, so what
does sampling mean? According on
Wikipedia, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in ano
ther recording in sound and music. Layered, equalized, sped up or slowed down,
repitched, looped, or otherwise manipulated samples can include elements such as
rhythm, melody, speech, sounds, or entire bars of music. They are typically
integrated using either hardware (samplers) or software, such as digital audio
workstations. So the producer or artist will pay a fee to rent that audio in
order to avoid being sued and to use that sound to create a song with the
audio they purchased, so the benefit of registering your work on copyright is
that you will earn money without doing anything or working. Also, people are
using copyrights to scare people online or in real life, even if their works are
not registered. They are putting the copyrighted word so that people are
scared and will not use them without crediting the owner so that the owner's
creative will be acknowledged with their name on it.

One of the most important principles of copyright is that it protects the

author's expression of ideas rather than the ideas themselves. For example, if
someone discovers a physical theory, the theory cannot be subject to
copyright; however, if he writes an article or book explaining the theory, the
text of the article or book becomes subject to copyright. pictures and drawings
for example, trying to make an exact copy of a photograph of a particular
scene (e.g., using a scanner or re-development) is a copyright violation, but
actually trying to photograph the same scene by someone else is not. But
even so, if the photographer makes an effort to design the scene himself (for
example, by selecting the amount of light, the background color, and the
arrangement of the scene's parts), another photographer's attempt to make a
similar scene and photograph it may be considered a copyright violation.