- Copyright is the protection the author has when they create a painting, computer program, story, film, music, or book. It protects the expression and not the idea.
- Copyright is limited and protection is not offered to titles, names, short phrases, slogans, familiar symbols or designs, methods systems, principles, or information that is common property that contains no original authorship like calendars or height and weight charts.
- Fair use is also an exception and that is when the public domain can us a person's work for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or library archiving.
- Works that are in public domain are not protected by intellectual property rights or if their rights have been expired. Examples of such works include Bethoven, Newton Physics, the English Languag, works of Shakespeare and the patents on powered flight
- Copyright protection lasts a lifetime...for the author of the work at least, and 70 years after they pass!
- Creative Commons is a site used for creative thinkers to share their ideas online for free as well as protects against uses they do not consent to.
- Creative Commons was created to make it easy for anyone to license their work. It defines the rules of copyright and allows for collaboration among teachers, writers, artists, and anyone else who wishes to use another person's work.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Copy.....right!
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