Copyright laws

Copyright Laws and Regulations the copyright laws were established in 1968, they were created in place to encourage original work and to discourage the stealing of others work. Copyright does not protect the ideas or the information of the authors work, rather it protects the way in which the idea or information is expressed.

Copyright defines itself as the rights of an artist or creator to have their creations be protected from intellectual theft and unauthorized distributing.

Copyright applies to everyone and their creation and is free.

A creator can decide how to sell their creation and for how much. This is how piracy is still illegal and is still the same thing as stealing something physical like a CD or DVD.

Copyright does not protect ideas

Fair Use Fair Use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission.

Stanford University recommends judging Fair Use by these Factors:

The purpose and character of the use -

The nature of the copyrighted work -

The amount and sustainability of the portion taken - does

The effect of the use upon the potential market - does your use use so much of the copyrighted material that the need to buy the copyrighted material is relieved?

Things such as using small clips of a video or film to comment on or criticize would fall under Fair Use.

Copyright Infringement

someone who exploits someone else's work without getting the owners permission is committing copyright infringement which is a serious crime. copyright infringement can be taken up in a court of law which severe punishment will generally be given against the defendant. In a simple sense copyright is infringement is stealing other peoples content without obtaining permission.

- if you give the owner credit you can use there work but not as your own.

- if you do not give sufficient credit to the original owner it is indeed copyright infringement if permission is not granted

- if you give credit to someone else that does not give you the right to profit off the original creators work unless that is discussed with the original owner in many cases this is used as advertising