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Any time you make something, you have a copyright on it.
You have a copyright on the comment you just made, for example. And I have a copyright on this reply. It just magically happens once you create the work.
You can give your copyright away (for example, allowing Lemmy to publish your work on other instances or show it to others). You can also sell your copyright; when a publisher buys a book from an author, they actually buy the copyright to the words the author wrote (and thus the author loses their copyright over the work).
This goes beyond just words - pictures and whatnot have the same inherent copyright.
I don't think that is quite true. I think there is a minium bar of human creativity needed for copyright to apply to something. If you accidental knock some paint over onto a bit of paper you do not get copyright over the result. But if you pick some paint, and intentionally throw it at a canvas in deliberate motions you have a much stronger claim of copyright over that work.
The work i believe also needs to be big enough to be able to claim copyright. A single sentence might not be enough, like how you cannot copyright a single cord in music.