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    The intellectual property rights for any creative work initially rest with its creator. Web users who want to publish their work onto the World Wide Web, however, must be aware of the details of the way they do it. If artwork, photographs, writings, poems, or technical innovations are published by their creator onto a privately owned web server, then they may choose the copyright and other conditions freely themselves. This is unusual though; more commonly work is uploaded to websites and servers that are owned by other organizations. It depends upon the terms and conditions of the site or service provider to what extent the original owner automatically signs over rights to their work by the choice of destination and by the act of uploading.

    Some web users erroneously assume that anything they find online is freely available, as if it were in the public domain, which is not always the case. Content owners aware of this belief may expect that others will use their published content without permission. Therefore, some content publishers embed digital watermarks in media files, sometimes charging users to receive unmarked copies for legitimate use. Digital rights management includes forms of access control technology that further limit the use of digital content even after it has been bought or downloaded.
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