Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Copyright

Fair use is using copyrighted materials to teach, critical comment or parody. There are guidelines however to how much of that certain material you can use.

Fair use is only guideline, however copyright is law. If you affect the market value of the product by reproducing it then you’re breaking the copyright law. Competing with the original. 

Crediting work means you can get away with fair use, but this is still a grey area. It all depends upon how much is used. Transformative work is guided as being fair use, however a blatant copy will be less acceptable under copyright. 

Work goes back into the public domain a certain period of time after the death of the artist/ original copyright owner. This copyright can be reinstated if the original copyright owner so chooses.


Creative Commons - designed to make it easier for people to share and allow others to build upon their work. Copyright owners can state limitations that allow people to make money or not and how much they’re allowed to develop work. 

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