> If it’s your work, information or copyright, should you not have a say in how it is used? In general, no. Copyright is the exclusive right to copy. If you b

> If it’s your work, information or copyright, should you not have a say in how it is used? In general, no. Copyright is the exclusive right to copy. If you buy a copy of a bestselling book and make copies of it, the copyright holder has the right to sue you, because the government has awarded them an exclusive (limited, temporary) monopoly over creating new copies of that work. If you buy a copy of a bestselling book and learn things from it, deface it, make origami out of it, burn it to keep warm over winter, or whatever, the copyright holder doesn’t get any say in the matter, because it’s copyright not useright.