...basic purpose." Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 US 151, 156 (1975) (footnotes omitted). Copyright protection "subsists ... in original works...authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression." 17 USC § 102(a) (1982 ed.). This protection has never accorded the copyright owner complete control...

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