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Legal Considerations (P6)
What is copyright?
Well, copyright is a form of intellectual property law which protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software and architecture. Copyright law does not protect facts, ideas, systems or methods of operation although it may protect the way these are expressed. copyright lasts for the life time of the creator of this piece of work plus 70 years after they have died meaning that during this time no one can profit from this piece without your permission.
Your works of art, music etc, all have copyright protection with or without formal copyright registration with the Library of congress or any other copyright office. However, copyright registration adds proof of copyright ownership and aids you in fighting copyright infringement. Copyright literally means the right to copy.
The whole point of copyright is just to prevent people from profiting or just using someone else's work without their permission. The way to gain someone's permission to use their product is simply by finding out the owner of the work and simply asking for permission to use it. The best way in which to contact them would be E-mail due to the fact that it then gives you an electronic copy meaning that if they try to sue you for copyright infringement you have proof in which you would be able to show.
An Example of gaining permissions to use someone's copy right image.
As you can see this image shows me asking permission to use this image, I have stated that the image is not going to be used in anyway that leads to me making money and it is also explain that it is being used for my college work.
Well, copyright is a form of intellectual property law which protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software and architecture. Copyright law does not protect facts, ideas, systems or methods of operation although it may protect the way these are expressed. copyright lasts for the life time of the creator of this piece of work plus 70 years after they have died meaning that during this time no one can profit from this piece without your permission.
Your works of art, music etc, all have copyright protection with or without formal copyright registration with the Library of congress or any other copyright office. However, copyright registration adds proof of copyright ownership and aids you in fighting copyright infringement. Copyright literally means the right to copy.
The whole point of copyright is just to prevent people from profiting or just using someone else's work without their permission. The way to gain someone's permission to use their product is simply by finding out the owner of the work and simply asking for permission to use it. The best way in which to contact them would be E-mail due to the fact that it then gives you an electronic copy meaning that if they try to sue you for copyright infringement you have proof in which you would be able to show.
An Example of gaining permissions to use someone's copy right image.
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