The article is aimed at searching the authentic legal nature of copyright. The author demonstrates the ways the specific and subtle background of copyright can reveal itself through inner conflicts of interests of author, on the one hand, and users (sometimes going to society in general), on the other hand. More visible are conflicts of laws, since copyright is deprived of the quality of extraterritoriality and bears strongly national features, distinguishing from one legal system to another as to standards of copyrightability of works, possible owners of copyright, subjective rights granted them by law and forming the copyright, legal remedies and general along with specially provided conditions of protection. Those numerous collisions, all of which are familiar and proper to the abovementioned intellectual property scheme, have always gravely stumbled its advancement. They present even deeper danger to the copyright of the new millennium, with its greater possibilities to distribution and use of copyrightable works and, thus, of practical infringement of the rights vested in their authors. As a result, unexpected new conflicts are born by the novels brought into national statutes aiming at resolve the old conflicts, and copyright goes into blind valley without visible way out. Author of the present article believes that the only possible way out be searching the true core of copyright to be taken as the non-variable foundation of every given special scheme, whether concerning list of infringements punished by law, or exonerations from civil liability (such as examples of fair use of copyrightable works). Copyright revealing as human right in every aspect of its existence — whether moral or pecuniary, whether monopoly or subject to restrictions, — such is the basis of copyright able to support legal decisions undertaken in order to favour authors or, incidentially, users or copyright. The author of the present article insists that such unique and whole constitutional foundation be given actually to copyright and be necessarily followed by copyright protection rules in development. Otherwise, separate and autonomously brought amendments could not only turn vain, but also initiate further, and possibly more cruel, conflicts. More than that, the said unique foundation should be undertaken as universal, forming mainstream of international agreements. While illustrating this conclusion, the article focuses on special legal decisions newly appeared in Russian copyright law, very often as the result of participation of the Russian Federation into international agreements and treaties, bi-lateral as well as multilateral. Amongst those novelties is accentuated the status of publicator which is cited in the article as an example of conceptually ill-balanced legal scheme.