Copyright is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their work, including the rights to copy, distribute, and adapt it. It protects any original work fixed in a tangible form, including internet posts, from the moment of creation without needing registration. People need to understand copyright rules to know whether they can legally use others' creative works or if they need to get permission.

1. Understanding the rules

2. What is copyright?
It is a legal concept, enacted by most
governments, giving the creator exclusive rights to it.
Generally, it is “ the right to copy”, but also
gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for
the work, to determine who may adapt the work to
other forms, who may perform the work, who may
financially benefit from it, and other related rights.

3. This is your right as a copyright owner
The Copyright Act gives
all authors a set of rights that
only they may exercise.
These include the right to
make copies, to prepare
derivative works, to publicly
distribute, display and perform
the work, and in the case of
digital sound recordings, to
perform the works over a
digital network.

4. What you need to know about
copyright protection…
Many people assume that everything posted
on the Internet is public domain, probably
because our law used to protect published works
only if they displayed the proper copyright
notice upon publication. The law, however, has
changed: neither publication nor a notice of any
kind is required to protect works today.

5. The facts
Simply putting the pen to the paper or in the
electronic medium, putting the fingers to the save
key creates a copyrighted work. Once expression is
committed to a tangible medium (and computer
media is considered tangible), copyright protection is
automatic. So, postings of all kinds are protected the
same as published printed works.

6. Implied and express licenses to use
Internet materials
You can easily give your works an express
license by attaching a Creative Commons license to
the materials you post on your Website, or upload
to other sites.
It's easy and it sends the message that you want
your materials to be part of the flow of creativity.

7. Creative Commons licenses
Every Creative Commons license works around
the world and lasts as long as applicable copyright lasts
(because they are built on copyright).
These common features serve as the baseline, on
top of which licensors can choose to grant additional
permissions when deciding how they want their work to
be used.

8. Liability for posting infringing works
The proliferation of RIAA lawsuits against individuals for
peer-to-peer file-sharing make clear that individuals can be
liable for their own actions when they copy and distribute
others' copyrighted works without permission.

9. Fair use
Fair use is the right, in some
circumstances, to quote copyrighted
material without asking permission or
paying for it.

10. Fair use role…
Fair use plays a critical role in the
analog world where duplicating technology
is cumbersome and authors make money
by controlling copies. It balances authors'
rights to reasonable compensation with the
public's rights to the ideas contained in
copyrighted works.

11. Getting permission
Assuming the work you wish to use is protected, the
work has not been licensed for your use online, and
your use is not a fair use or otherwise exempt from
liability for infringement, you need permission.
Check the Copyright Clearance Center("CCC") first.
If the work you want to use is registered with the CCC,
you can get permission instantly for most materials. If
your institution subscribes to the academic license and
your work is covered, you don't have to do anything --
your use is covered.

12. Mass Digitization of Library
Collections is revealing a treasure trove of heretofor
obscured works, works in the public domain that can be
shared broadly with the public, and orphan works, those
still protected, but whose copyright owners are unknown,
unable to be located, or unresponsive.

13. What you need to know about
orphan works and public domain
Orphan Works are those books, records, images,
compositions, manuscripts, movies, screenplays,
painting and drawings, in short, any work protected by
copyright whose owner cannot be determined or located
or who does not respond when contacted.

14. The public Domain
Public Domain is considered if a work is published
without proper notice (name of publisher and date) during certain
time frames (1923-1989), it becomes part of the public domain. If
it is not published, or if it is published after 1989 without
indication of the author is, its protection is automatic and lasts for
the life of the author plus 70 years in the U.S. (and longer in some
countries).

15. Conclusion
When you use others’ creative expressions,
set time aside to understand copyrights and
licenses rules that are linked to their original
creation.

16. End notes
The Copyright Crash Course © 2001, 2007 Georgia K. Harper
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