 Copyright is a form of protection given to

authors/creators of original works.

 This property right can be sold or

transferred to others.
 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.
 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 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unpublished works.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.
 Literary works

 Dramatic works

 Musical works

 Artistic works
Not everything is protected by copyright
law.

 Copyright does not protect

facts, ideas, systems, or methods of
operation.
 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 you’re
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/abou
 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.
 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-is-a-copyright/

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