Copyright protects original creative works like writing, art, music, and films for 50 to 100 years. It gives the owner the right to pursue legal action if someone uses their copyrighted work without permission. The Copyright Hub provides information on copyright and allows searching to identify the rightful owner of a work. There are organizations like Getty Images and BAPLA that allow legally using images with their permission. The document discusses searching for the owner of an image using the Copyright Hub but being unable to identify the owner.

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Louise Maher 

2. What is copyright and what does it protect?
Copyright is a legal right which protects a persons original idea, once it has
ben physically expressed., be this a written, theatrical, music, film and various
other pieces of work. Copyright lasts 50 to 100 years. If a piece of work is
protected by copyright law, and another person uses the material then the
owner then has the right to sue.

3. Copyright hub provides us with a range of information regarding copyright, as
well as allowing you to search material in order to find the rightful owner.

4. There are a variety of different organisations which we can contact in order to
enable to use images legally. Below are a few examples:
Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
BAPLA: http://www.bapla.org.uk/en/page/show_home_page.html

5. As you can see below I have attempted to search for the owner of one of my
found images using the copyright hub, however it seems that this is unable to
identify the owner of this particular image.