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What is copyright?

Definition: Copyright is a body of exclusive rights granted by law to creators/artists for the protection of their original works of authorship

What can be copyrighted?

Free Resources

Literary, dramatic, architectural, photographic, musical, sound, cartographic, pantomimic, choreographic, pictorial or graphic, sculptural, and audiovisual works and recordings.

Fair Use Resources

What can't be copyrighted?

Images

  • http://www.public-domain-image.com/
  • http://search.creativecommons.org/
  • http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/
  • https://pixabay.com/
  • http://images.google.com/hosted/life
  • http://www.freeimages.com/

Citation Help

  • http://www.copyright.gov/
  • http://fairusetube.org/
  • http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/

Ideas, procedures or methods, facts, titles or names, common phrases, and works created by a government.

How does a work become copyrighted?

  • Purdue OWL (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/)
  • EasyBib (available from the Bethel Library website, under the Faculty Resources tab)

When something is recorded so that it can be seen or heard by others, it is automatically copyrighted.

Free Resources

Public Domain

Video

  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
  • https://www.pond5.com/free
  • https://archive.org/details/movies
  • https://videos.pexels.com/
  • https://www.shutterstock.com/video/
  • https://www.fotolia.com/Info/Videos

Copyright doesn't last forever. Generally, it only lasts the life of the author plus 70 years. Works that aren't copyright protected and can be used freely are in the public domain.

This includes works never protected by copyright and works produced in the U.S. before 1923.

What are the rights of a copyright owner?

Penalties for copyright infringement or plagiarism

The only the copyright owner can: reproduce a work, distribute copies, publicly perform or display the work, and can prepare derivative works based on the original

  • Cease-and-desist letter
  • Fees
  • Sony BMG vs. Tenebaum
  • Imprisonment
  • USA vs. Sheikh

Free Resources

Fair Use

Music and Sound

  • http://www.openmusicarchive.org/index.php
  • http://ibeat.org/
  • http://www.purple-planet.com/
  • http://freemusicarchive.org/
  • http://www.soundjay.com/

4. Affect on the potential market

direct market subsitute?

Fair Use

So, I can never use anything created by someone else ??

Copyright Clearance Center

3. Amount and sustainability of use

Less vs. more

An exception called "Fair Use" allows you to use copyrighted material under specific circumstances.

-Acts as an intermediary between academic users of copyrighted material and the copyright holders

-Arranges collective licensing for institutions and one-time licensing for document delivery services, coursepacks, etc.

http://www.copyright.com/

Conclusion

Copyright is a complicated concept that is constantly adapting to changes in technology.

Contact us if you ever have a question about copyright or plagiarism.

Fair Use

Legal use of a copyrighted work depends on:

1- The purpose and character of your use

2. Nature of the copyrighted work

3. Amount and sustainability of use

4. Affect on the potential market

2. Nature of the copyrighted work

Fiction vs. non-fiction

Fair Use

1- The purpose and character of your use

Commercial vs. non-profit use

Copyright Basics

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