Friday, June 29, 2012
WK1 Blog Post #1 - Reading - Copyright Issues
Posted by msdedej at 12:16 PM
What is copyright ~ Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights. It is an intellectual propertyform (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete. (Says the Wikipedia) It never really accrued to me, also I didn’t know you can almost copyright anything until I see the video and read the section on copyright issues. People have copyrighted Dances, movies, phrases, looks etc. and this truly has amazed me that so many people would want to copyright the little things, but then again it makes since because you now own the right to whatever you copyright and now if any one uses it they will have to credit you or they can be sued.
What is Creative Commons Solutions ~ Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge, its technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. Its a licensing tool developed by the open access movement to protect copyright while increasing public distribution, offer better solutions to these questions than existing oral history protocols?
The purpose of copyright law is to promote the progress of useful arts and science by protecting the exclusive right of authors and inventors to benefit from their works of authorship. To this end, the US Copyright Act of 1976 -a complete revision of the Copyright Act of 1909- protects all the works of authorship created between 1978 and the present. (Stim, R. West Publishing, 1979) This protection extends to works that are unpublished but are in a fixed and tangible form. The federal government regulates copyright law by registering copyrighted works through the Copyright Office and by enforcing copyright laws in the federal court system. The most commonly litigated issue in copyright law involves copyright infringement. Disputes regarding the violation of any exclusive right granted under copyright law, such as copying a work, are filed in federal courts due to Federal Preemption. Copyright law protects literary, musical, graphic, or other artistic forms in which an author expresses intellectual concepts. In the context of copyright law an author is the creator of any copyrightable creation. Any author creation that meets the standards of copyright law is protectable under copyright law and considered to be a work of authorship. The main two requirements to meet the standards of copyright law are originality and fixation.
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