The digital revolution has made it very easy for us to access material from files, web sites and the Internet. We all freely copy things we like and send them to others, use them on our social network sites or add them to our presentations and reports. The ease with which we can claim material for our own use may be obscuring the fact that much of this use could violate copyright laws.
What is copyright?
Copyright is legal protection for authors on how their original works are used. The owner of a copyright has the exclusive right to:
1. reproduce the work
2. prepare derivative works
3. distribute copies of the work by selling, renting, leasing or lending and
4. perform or display the work publicly
Copyright protects a wide variety of original works,from the written word (poetry, stories, books) to entertainment(songs, movies, video games, plays, choreography) to visual arts (paintings, sculptures, photographs, architecture). It also includes software code, derivative work and compilations.
No comments:
Post a Comment