2. In earlier years, copyright law only applied to
books, but over time many other things can be
under the protection of copyright law. These
can be maps, performances, works of art, music
and software
First statute for copyright arose in 1709-1710
3. Copyright are rights given from the author of a
work allowing the person to copy, distribute
and or change their work.
Copyright can cover many of you works and it
is there to protect you, but copyright does not
protect your thoughts or ideas on a certain
subject.
Copyright owners have sovereignty for only a
limited amount of time over their works, but
over time it will become considered a public
domain.
4. There are many different types of copyright:
technology, literature, aesthetics, law and
many others. All these have different sets of
rules. One does not necessarily have to have
the same laws or rules that another has. E.G.
technology could have some copyright rights
while a literary work could not have the same
rights.
5. The copyright idea came from many european countries in
the efforts by the church and state to control what was
printed. Before printers, copyright had no need because
there was no way to massively distribute or no one had the
time to copy something on pen and paper over and over,
but with the invention of printers, the people seen that it
was easier to get “Robbed” of their creations.
Primarily, the government would give certain printers
certain rights to publish certain works for a limited amount
of years and that was probably where the copyright idea
derived from.
The first copyright privilege was first introduced in 1518
and went towards richard pynson, successor to william
caxtion. It was valid for two years, but now the copyright
term is much longer.
6. Copy rights give the publisher many rights and
arbitrary power over their work for their entire
lifetime and a couple decades after
Copyright can give people, also enough space to
get some of your material, but they have to
reference everything to you.
Sometimes, copyrights can be hard because a
publisher is not always the one who holds the
copyright and an author is not always the one who
holds the copyright so it is much harder to get
permission to publish or redistribute an edited
work without the copyright owner’s consent.
