Norma ZaremberEDTC 6340

Copyright

The Importance of Copyright

copyright:

The legal right of creative artists or publishers to control the use and reproduction of their original works.

THE AUTHORBy definition an author is someone who contributes copyrightable expression to the work.

copyrightable expression

Original authorship, fixed on a tangible medium of expression.

Who owns the works

Examples of copyrightable expression:

Music Artwork

Software

WebsitePoetry

Examples that do not qualify as Copyright Expression

Logos

Ideas

Works created by Federal Government

Rights of the Copyright Owner

The owner of a copyright has the exclusive right to reproduce work, to distribute copies, to display the work publicly .

Public Domain and Orphan Works

The public domain is the realm of material

ideas

images

sounds

discoveries

texts

facts

ORPHANS WORKS

Orphan works are works under the copyright published before 1923

But they are commercially unavailable and the copyright owner can not be found

Content on the web

Using materials from the Internet

Copyright law governs the use of materials you might find on the Internet, just as it governs the use of books, video or music in the analog world

Copyright protection

Many people assume that everything posted on the Internet is public domain, probably because our law used to protect published works only if they displayed the proper copyright notice upon publication.

Implied and express licenses to use internet materials

Whenever an author posts anything on the Internet, he or she should reasonably expect that it will be read, downloaded, printed out, forwarded, and even used as the basis for other works to some degree. So, just by posting, an author impliedly grants a limited license to use her work in this manner.

Many people assume that everything posted on the Internet is public domain, probably because our law used to protect published works only if they displayed the proper copyright notice upon publication.

Fair Use

The role of fair use

Fair use plays a critical role in the analog world where duplicating technology is cumbersome and authors make money by controlling copies. It balances authors' rights to reasonable compensation with the public's rights to the ideas contained in copyrighted works.

Where fair use may be questioned, implied rights may be broader, but an express right to use is best - it's clear and reassuring. It's possible today to search Creative Commons licensed works by license type

Citing Information

Citing information http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu

www.copyright.com/services/copyright.

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pddfaq#q01