The owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies,and "copies" are defined as "material objects....in whichia work is fixed by any method now known or later perceived,reproduced,or otherwise communicated,either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."The Copyright Act was changed to include this definition at the advent of the digital era when new forms of media-the silicon chip,the magnetic disk,etc.-gve rise to hard cases over whether a computer program burned into a chip was a copy of the same program that was visible only as the printed version of the code.Nowadays there is no question that it it.
The reproduction right is fundamental because it captures the majority of infringements:most things that amount to an infringing work copy some part of the original work.
复制权是基础权益，也包含了大多数的侵权范围：大多是侵权都是部分抄袭了原版权作品。
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