Copyright gives legal ownership over original creative works like art, writing, music. It allows the creator to control how their work is used and distributed for a fixed period of time. Without copyright protection, others could freely copy and profit from someone else's creative works. Copyright law protects original works fixed in a tangible form from unauthorized reproduction, distribution, public performance, or display. It relates to charities by ensuring the works they create or use, like content on their websites, are only used as they allow through copyright ownership or licensing.

1. Copyright Research
Olivia & Luke

2. What is copyright?
• Copyright gives you ownership over the things that you have
created.
• The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator
for a fixed number of years, to print, perform, film, or
recorded literary, artistic, or musical.
• If people were to breach this they would have the problem
that they could be sued by the person who owns the piece of
work.

3. What does it protect
• Copyright protects original works of authorship fixed in any
tangible medium of expression, now known or later
developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or
otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of
machine or device.
• Without copyright you often find that people copy your
products. If you copyright it and somebody copies it you can
take legal action on this person.

4. Examples
• With E4 you find that you have video guidelines and you have
to have the consent of everyone in them.
• If you are using music you have to either get them specially
composed or you have to request for copyright use of the
music.
• With the BBC everything that they own is copyrighted to them
as a company and you cannot download anything unless it is
given authorization by them.

5. How Does It Relate To Our
Charity?
• The works of authorship contained in this website, including
but not limited to all design, text and images (the “Materials”),
are owned or licensed by Make-A-Wish and may not be
copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed,
distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by
subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any
manner without our prior written consent. Unless permitted
otherwise in writing, you may only access the Materials
located within the website for your personal use. This means
you may download copies of Materials for personal,
noncommercial use only, so long as you neither change nor
delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright
notice. When you download Materials, you do not obtain any
ownership rights to the Materials.

6. Resources
• http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/video-
guidelines-for-e4-com/id/400287255
• http://wish.org/content/privacy-policy-and-terms
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3281849.stm
• http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/subcategory/display/
id/400281681