" copyright is a creation of statute" what does that mean?

[shivajikobardan]

 

context taken from here. I am not law student but engineering student but we have to study this in our subject called engineering professional practice and I got confused so asking this here...

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[iNow]

It means someone wrote a law that defines what copyright means. Without that law (or “statute”) then copyright wouldn’t exist. The way copyright gets applied and enforced is dictated by that statute and how courts interpret it. 

[shivajikobardan]

thank u