Copyright protects original creative works and grants creators exclusive rights over the use and distribution of their work. Things protected by copyright include literary works, music, films, photographs, and more. To use a copyrighted image, you must obtain permission from the rights holder. You can search online copyright databases or image tracing tools to identify the rights holder and then contact them to request permission. Some sites that can help find rights holders and facilitate permission requests are Copyhub, the UK Intellectual Property Office, and the Copyright Hub.

1. Unit 51 Page Layout & Design
PR9 Sourcing Images

2. What is copyright and what does
it protect?
Copyright protects original works of authorship this means anything you have
created originally is yours it means others can not use it claiming it to be theirs.
Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of
an original work complete rights to its use and distribution for however they see fit
within the law, however usually for a limited time. The exclusive rights are not
absolute; they are limited by limitations and exceptions to copyright law, including
fair use.
Things protected are things such as
literary works;
musical works, including any accompanying words;
dramatic works, including any accompanying music;
pantomimes and choreographic works;
pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;
motion pictures works;
sound recordings;
architectural works.

3. You can use Copyhub to trace down a website or single person that owns the right to
an image and then you can send them a message through their website asking for
permission to use the image, now if you don’t know who owns the image you can put
the image into an image holder tracer, so you upload the image and then they will find
out who or which company owns the rights to that image and from there you can ask
for permission.
These are three companies that you can contact to ask permission to use an image
and also find out whose image it is through the websites you will be able to make
contact and it all happens quick so there is no delay. The links to the companies are
down below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-office
http://www.copyrighthub.co.uk/find-out/copyright-organisations
http://www.cla.co.uk/

4. LeBron James
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/03/lebron-james-
on-loss-to-rockets-i-didnt-come-through-for-my-
teammates
This image is
owned by
Troy Taormina
/ USA Today
Sport
Because this picture was used by USA today it was hard to track the
original owner of the image however Troy Taormina was credited at the
bottom of their website. But if it wasn’t on their website you could go
through a copyright website and image search and find out the owner of
the images rights and then message them if you could use the image
under the fair use law.