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Copyright on the web

One of the most misunderstood issues online has to do with copyright, both with e-mail and web site copyright issues. Recently in our media studies class we discussed Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/worldwide/uk/ and how allowing your work to be reused and added to creates a society that learns from one another. The cc mark should not be mistaken for the © mark. Copyright is not just a word added at the bottom of a page, logo, picture or any other form but a legal document which is added on with the backing of the law. Visitors to web sites automatically download the page and all its contents which in a way can be viewed as copyright infringement. This is then added to by using park or all of the contents to your own work and putting it back on the web.

Copyright laws can and are being enforced online. Right clicking on a web page gives you no right to save the contents but as many believe if you can save it then it yours to use.Don't assume that you can use, repost or take anything you find online simply because you can. Thats not the case and copyright law is enforced so beware. Check out the links below and see what the law sayes about the simply issue of right clicking, copying, pasting, and reusing for your own work.

http://www.copyright.gov/

U.S. Copyright Office promoting progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors.

Using technology effectively to communicate with others both personally and professionally with knowledge, understanding and courtesy.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/

View the Creative Commons deed explaining what a creative commons licence is and why you should use it.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/15/creative.html

Creative Commons, which has taken on the laudable task of creating RDF descriptions of common licensing terms for intellectual property, suggests its users associate machine-consumable licensing terms such as this:

http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf

This site explains in simple words to by way of an interactive page aimes at children but informative for the rest of us what copyright means on the web.

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

Copyright Website! The Internet's Copyright Registration and Information Resource.

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eccumc/copyright/guidesum.html

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia A guide line on how much of a copyright work a student should use. It's a good reference for all types of media from word count to the number of minutes a video of music clip should contain.

http://staff.washington.edu/jcmills/class/biblio.html

Art, Copyright, and the Web Bibliography a good source for information on copyright with plenty of links to other materials.

10 Big Myths about copyright explained. The most important being that just because there's no copyright written on a piece of work doesn't mean it's not copyright.

http://www.benedict.com/

Copyright Website! The Internet's Copyright Registration and Information Resource.

http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eccumc/copyright/guidesum.html

Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia A guide line on how much of a copyright work a student should use. It's a good reference for all types of media from word count to the number of minutes a video of music clip should contain.

http://staff.washington.edu/jcmills/class/biblio.html

Art, Copyright, and the Web Bibliography a good source for information on copyright with plenty of links to other materials.

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