About Copyright

By: Marivel Correa

WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?

Copyright is a form of protection given

to authors/creators of original works.

This property right can be sold or

transferred to others.

COPYRIGHT LAW

Copyright is a form of protection

grounded in the U.S. Constitution and
granted by law for original works of
authorship.

The current copyright law, the

Copyright Act of 1976, is codified in
Title 17 of the U.S. Code.

AUTHORS RIGHTS

Copyright law assures ownership, which comes with several

rights, that the author has exclusively. For example:
Make copies of the work
Distribute copies of the work
Perform the work publicly
Display the work publicly
Make derivative works

Copyright holder may grant permission

or license anyone else to do these
things, without affecting their
ownership of the actual copyright in
their work. For example, an author may
permit a television adaptation of their
book to be made and broadcast .

The law provides certain ways in which

copyright works may be used without
the need to first obtain permission from
the copyright holder - these include:

Fair use (e.g. to make copies)

Public domain
Library privilege
Copying for examinations and copying for
instruction

COPYRIGHT PROTECTION

Copyright covers both published and

unpublished works.

Copyright protection is automatic at

the moment the work is created and
fixed in a tangible form that it is
perceptible.

COPYRIGHTABLE WORKS

Literary works

Dramatic works

Musical works

Artistic works

NON-COPYRIGHTABLE
WORKS
Not everything is protected by copyright
law.

Copyright does not protect facts, ideas,

systems, or methods of operation.

Copyright VS. Patent and

Trademark

Copyright protects original works of

authorship, while a patent protects
inventions or discoveries.

A trademark protects words, phrases,

symbols, or designs identifying the source
of the goods or services of one party and
distinguishing them from those of others.

They want to provide universal access to research, education and

culture.

Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet,

and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted
on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.

The default setting of copyright law requires all of these actions to

have explicit permission, granted in advance, whether youre an
artist, teacher, scientist, librarian, policymaker, or just a regular user.

In order for Creative Commons to achieve the vision of universal

access. They provide a free, public, and standardized infrastructure
that creates a balance between the reality of the Internet and the
reality of copyright laws.

http://creativecommons.org/about

The Teach Act

Under the Teach Act, the Copyright law

provides educators with a separate set
of rights in addition to fair use, to
display and perform others works in
the classroom.

These rights are entitled in Section

110(1) of the Copyright Act, and apply
to any original work an educator wants
to use.

Resources

Source 1: (n.d.). Retrieved from http://creativecommons.org/about

Source 2: Copyright crash course. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://

copyright.lib.utexas.edu/index.html

Source 3 : Copyright crash course. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://

copyright.lib.utexas.edu/teachact.html

Source 4: What is copyright?. (n.d.). Retrieved from

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/legal/copyright/what_is_copyright/

Source 5: Copyright in general. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://

www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

Source 6: (n.d.). Retrieved from http://

www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/1-what-isa-copyright
/

Source 7: (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.copyrightkids.org/whatcopyframes.htm