Copyright and Fair Use Unit
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Define copyright and include five interesting facts such as when copyright laws were enacted, how you get something copyrighted, what can be copyrighted, etc.
Define Fair Use and include five interesting facts such as when Fair Use laws were enacted, how they are used and why Fair Use is acceptable.
Pretend that you have just invented the next big product that everyone will want. You will become a zillionaire when it hits the market. However, as soon as you start to make money, someone takes your idea, makes a few changes and offers it for a lesser price. What can you do to protect your investment and your profits?
Pretend that you are a movie producer and people are comparing you to Steven Spielberg. Your first movie comes out and it is a big hit. Movie goers are lining up to see your movie. You are going to be very, very rich. However, during the second week of release, someone pirates the movie and puts it on the internet and sells the movie as a download. Does this seem fair to you? What will this do your future earnings.
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ReplyDeleteObjective 3 Copyright Research
ReplyDelete1. A copyright notice is no longer required for protection.
2. E-mail is copyrighted as soon as it is sent or saved.
3. There are many erroneous claims on internet web-pages about what is copyrighted.
4. There is a lot of copyright infringement on the internet.
5. Copyright protects those portions of a work that are original, that were created.
6. "Labeling violation is 3rd degree felony"
Copyright Tutorial Video. Web. .
20 Copyright Facts. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. .
Hunt, Dianna. "Piracy, Tarrant & Texas." Tarrant & Texas 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
-Max Herman
DeleteYou did a good job outlining some of the aspects of what copyright can accomplish.
5 Facts of Fair Use
ReplyDeletethe following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses
•Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
•News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
•Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
•Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
•Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way.
i agree and this is extremely well and thought out group of ideas.
Delete-Max Herman
DeleteGood job explaining fair use!
-Alli Bliss
DeleteGreat explanation! This is very well done.
In Tarrant County, five people were arrested for piracy. These people were copying movies such as "Harry Potter, Puss in Boots, Fast & Furious - all were available at rock-bottom prices." You may wonder, well what's wrong with that? Well, unfortunately once and artist doesn't receive their rightful pay, they lose their livelihood "cost[ing] the nation more than 70,000 jobs in the music industry and more than $2 billion in lost wages, according to the study by the Institute for Policy Innovation." This hurts the economy, the artists, and the consumer if the artist stops making music due to this theft. I think it's terrible that people produce the pirated film and those who knowingly buy it. If they really supported the artist, they would pay for their products to support them.
ReplyDeleteFive things that I learned about copyright laws are: a Public Domain is something that can be copied without getting permission from anyone, all states share the same copyright laws, for something to be protected under the copyright law, it must be fixed in a tangible form of expression, the rights of copyright include the right to distribute copies of one’s work, even a child’s finger painting can be copyrighted, and no matter where your art is, you own the copyright since you are the author or creator.
Five things that I learned about fair use are: fair use is a defense to copyright infringement, it can be used for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, the amount of work, the effect on the commercial market, and the purpose of the use all affect whether something is considered a fair use.
I do think that copyright laws are fair because the money that artists and filmakers make when they sell their products, is the money that puts food on their tables, it's nobody elses place to take that away. I also do think they are necassary. Again, since people make a living off of that money, nobody has the right to take that away from them and the copyright laws protect them from that. If I created something that generated something for my family, other people definitely should not be able to use it for free, just like copyright laws, people shouldn't be able to copy others' property and take their hard earned income.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Star Telegram 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
"Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office." Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Chantal
DeleteWell written! I agree with you on the fair use and copyright.
Objective 3 Copyright Research
ReplyDelete1. A copyright notice is no longer required for protection.
2. E-mail is copyrighted as soon as it is sent or saved.
3. There are many erroneous claims on internet web-pages about what is copyrighted.
4. There is a lot of copyright infringement on the internet.
5. Copyright protects those portions of a work that are original, that were created.
6. "Labeling violation is 3rd degree felony"
Copyright Tutorial Video. Web. .
20 Copyright Facts. Web. 23 Mar. 2015. .
Hunt, Dianna. "Piracy, Tarrant & Texas." Tarrant & Texas 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
5 Facts of Fair Use
ReplyDeletethe following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses
•Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
•News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
•Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
•Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
•Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way. this is an emaple of copy right
Chantal
ReplyDeleteDuring my research of copy-right laws, I learned things I didn’t know about how to get a work copy righted and work that has already been copyrighted. I had no idea what fair use laws were and how much breaking copy right laws can affect people. The first thing that blow my mind were the requirements needed to get your work under copyright protection.
You work only needs to meet three criteria to be considered by the copyright office for protection. The first thing that needs to happen is that you must have a tangible form of your work. This means that you can’t protect things like speeches unless you have a recording or it written down. The item also must be original which is kind of a given because why would the government protect something that you stole. The finale thing is that it must show minimal creativity. This is the one that got me because I thought works could be protected by copyright laws no matter how creative it was or not. I also didn’t know what the whole point of the copyright laws were but the governments whole goal is to “encourage the progress of education and the arts”
I was also not aware of the fair use laws in place to give the public domain access to copyrighted works. What really surprised me was that works are only protected by copyright laws for the life of the author plus seventy years than anyone can use it. I thought that works were copyrighted for life. Another thing is that you can use works for “non-profit or educational purposes” (BYU) I thought you had to ask for permission if you were going to use something for anything. This means that teachers and students can use works in classrooms without asking for permission.
Another thing I learned was how much people’s lives are affected if you break these copyright laws. In fact when people sell and download music illegal “70,000 jobs in the music industry” (Hunt) are lost. And when you break these laws you can spend a ton of time in federal prison.
The copyright holder has the right to “reproduce the work, distribute copies of the work, and perform the work publicly.”(Copyright) The copyright holder also has the right to authorize others to do the same. It is illegal for a person to violate any rights of the copyright owner.
I also learned that when a pirated recording is downloaded, the penalty is “A third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.”(Hunt) Both money and nearly 6,000 jobs a year are lost because of piracy.
However, there is one exemption to the rules. “The doctrine of Fair Use” allows the work to be used without the consent of the copyright owner, but only be for educational purposes. The doctrine of fair use only applies in an educational place, like a school. This allows a teacher to show an educational movie in a classroom.
Many original works, including literary works, musical works, dramatic works, sculptural works, and audiovisual works are protected under copyright laws. Sound recordings and architectural works are also protected. Almost any form of original work is protected under copyright laws.
Throughout my researcher I learned things that better helped me understand copyright laws and the procedures I need to take if I want to protect my work or uses somebody else’s.
Hunt, Dianna. "Piracy." Star-Telegram, 1B sec. Print.
"Copyright 101." BYU. Web. .
Copyright and fair use policy:
ReplyDeleteIn 2012 the star telegram printed a newspaper talking about how five people were arrested because of the copyright policy. All of these people were copying popular movies. The copyright and fair use policy is very important because it is a “third-degree felony” and can be up to “$250,000 in fines.” It can affect everyone that made and was involved in the media. Because of those people copying those movies and other media the people in the industry lost “more than $2 billion” in wages.
Us as buyers are affected by the policy immensely. After purchasing the product you have to make sure you don’t copy the music or other media illegally. It affects my life by when I want to share media with other people I have to make sure that I don’t copy it illegally. Fair use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of media may be copied if quoted correctly.
5 things I learned about fair use:
1. I learned that there are certain laws when using certain media such as print and music. For example when a teacher is using a print of something in the classroom they can only print one copy for each student.
2. The copyright protection is only protecting the way the authors have expressed themselves, and it doesn’t extend to any ideas they have. That is why people can and have stolen their ideas.
3. When wanting to get permission to use something it is the easiest to get permission from the copyright owner because the copyright office cannot give permission.
4. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission, so even if you are taking a word or phrase you need to give credit.
5. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
If I was an inventor of a new product and someone stole the idea I would protect it by putting a copyright on it and making sure the law applied to it. And if I was a producer of a movie and someone downloaded it without permission or for free I would feel violated and I would not want get as much earnings as I normally would.
"Fair Use." Us Copyright. US Copyright Office, 1 Jan. 2002. Web. 31 Mar. 2015. .
Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Star Telogram 1 Jan. 2012, Tarrant & Texas sec. Print.
Hey Lauren!
DeleteYour blog is very well written! I learned a lot from you! I agree with you on how i would feel if someone stole my movie too. I think you cleraly stated the laws. Good Job!
I agree with you when you say that as a buyer we are affected by this policy. I used to think it only protected the producer, but it is directly associated with the fact that as a buyer, I have to be careful of what I do with what I assume is my property. Even though I bought it, doesn't mean I own the rights to it. That is a good opinion and I completely agree with you on that.
Deletelauren!
Deleteyour blog is so good! you worked really and did great research!!
Well said! I learned a lot from reading this!
DeleteLauren,
DeleteThis blog response is very well written and well thought out.
Throughout my research on copy-right laws I learned many things. Before my research I was completely unaware of fair use laws and what that entailed. Not only that but the toll it took on peoples work and lives. Fair use is defined as “A limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.” In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders.
ReplyDeleteFive things I learned about Fair use and copy right laws are as follows,
1. The main point of copyright laws are too mainly “promote the progress of science and the useful arts—that is—knowledge” not only that but it’s also about keeping balance. This means that you must show “minimal creativity” in you works which some people may have a hard time wrapping their head around that but if you go back to what the goal states it says the main point is in fact science and knowledge progression.
2. Another thing I learned is that not only does must your work exist you must have a hard copy or recording of it to be able to be eligible for rights to your document. The item has to be completely original and if it is a speech of some sort it has to be recorded.
3. Another thing I discovered during my research is a Public Domain is something that can be copied without getting permission from anyone. This is the same for everyone because it is honored in every state. Again, you must have a hard copy of your work no matter what.
4. Fair use is a defense to copyright infringement, it can be used when dealing with comments and criticism. Not only that but when teaching and reporting. It affects everything.
5. Lastly I learned that how many jobs are lost throughout the music industry due to fraud and copyright laws. Over “70,000” jobs will be lost because of the terrible criminals.
I definitely think that they should keep these laws and are for sure fair. Peoples life would be changed if it was not put into effect.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Star Telegram 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
"Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office." Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Hi Anna! I thought this was very well written and it helped me understand the fair use policy. I agree with everything that you said about the policies and I feel more educated about the policy. It was a very well written blog!
DeleteI completely agree with you when you say it affects other peoples lives and livelihood. It's not fair that someone could take away your money because they want to take advantage of it. It's not okay for someone to do that and I completely agree with you when you say that. Your blog was very well written and I agree with everything you said.
DeleteChantal
DeleteHey! This was well written and I understood everything that you mentioned!
I completely agree with your well- written statement about copy right laws!.
DeleteCharles Papp
DeleteThank you for writing this, I didn't know a whole lot about copyright, but now it's all clarified.
Thanks.
Alex Dames
DeleteWell written and clear message, good job. I learned so much about copyright thanks to this.
Andrew Barlow
DeleteI learned so much about fair use just by reading your blog!
-Alli Bliss
DeleteVery well written. Such a clear message & I learned a lot!
Anna,
ReplyDeleteI agree with all the things you said. I left out some things that you added that totally benefitted your response. Good job!
I completely agree with you when you say it affects other peoples lives and livelihood. It's not fair that someone could take away your money because they want to take advantage of it. It's not okay for someone to do that and I completely agree with you when you say that. Your blog was very well written and I agree with everything you said.
ReplyDeleteCarly,
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything you said and how you clearly stated the laws. I learned so much that I wouldn't have known if I didn't yours.
When i was doing my research over copy-right laws i learned numerous things about it. Before I was completely unaware of fair use laws and what that entailed. Not only that but the toll it took on peoples work and lives. Fair use is defined as “A limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.” In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Baiscally if you would like to use something of another human being you needed their consent before posting it.
ReplyDeleteHere are 5 things i learned about Fair use and copy right laws:
-1. Copy right laws main point towards everyone in the world is to give credit to those who said or did it before you. How would you like it if you found the cure for a deathly disease and someone just took your work and made it their own giving you no credit for it what so ever. Pretty bad i assume. That is why these laws are really important.
-2. Not only just saying or doing the work is important, also having a copy or recording of it to prove that it is yours. it must be original in order to be eligible.
-3. Also another important thing i learned was that the "Public Domain" part of the copy right laws are useful but once again you need to give credit and consent for the orignal author.
-4. Another thing i learned in my research was the "Fair Use" right which basically is a defense to copyright stuff.
-5. Last but definetly not least i learned that many of people's masterpieces and original documents or songs were lost because people stole it straight from the orignal people which is awful.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Star Telegram 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
"Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office." Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Alex Dames
DeleteGood Job i learned a couple of new things from this blog, thanks for posting
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Copyright protects authors’ of works that have come from the author’s mind and have a minimum amount of creativity. If the copyright has ended (which occurs after 70 years after the author dies) or if the work is one “federal government employees produced within the scope of their employment,”1 you are allowed to use it the ways you would like.
Sometimes, you’re allowed to use a small amount of a copyrighted piece called fair use. There are fair use laws that limit you to only use a specific amount of the work you would like to use. When wanting to use music, one may only use “a maximum of 30 seconds per musical composition.”2 In Tarrant County in 2012, the police found individuals making and selling illegal copies of media which they made movies and music. “Theft of music alone costs the nation more than 70,000 jobs in the music industry and more than $2 million in lost wages, according to a study by the Institute for Policy Innovation.”3 Fair use is the permission by the author and the federal law to use a small amount of a copyrighted work.
Fair use is used for educational or nonprofit reasons, however, it is not used for commercial reasons, for the company or individual could make a profit off of the work.
The Copyright and Fair Use laws are used to protect the author of the work. They end problems such as the pirating issue in Tarrant County. This was done so that the real authors and creators get the money for their work instead of a lazy person. If I made something that could me a lot of money. If I were the person, I would like to have control over it and have copyright laws protect it from being used in other people’s benefit.
1 "Module 1 Copyright Basics & Requesting Information: Unprotected Materials." Copyright BYU. BYU. Web. .
3 Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Tarrant & Texas: 5B. Print.
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ReplyDeleteI learned that the copyright laws that are enforced in the United States are necessary and important. There have been people arrested here in Tarrant county for crimes piracy, or the illegal copying and reselling of movies, TV shows, and music. When a person pirates a piece of information they copy it and resell it without giving any credit or money to the person who invented it. In the United States pirated entertainment cost “more than 70,000 jobs in the music industry and more than $2 billion in lost wages”. Fair use is defined as “A limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.” In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders.
Copyright
1. I learned that there are laws regarding the number of copies a teacher can distribute to his or her students.
2. The copyright protection is only protecting the way the authors have expressed themselves, and it doesn’t extend to any ideas they have.
3. When you use somebodies elses ideas or words, you must give credit to the original author, when you don’t give credit to the author it is called plagiarism.
Fair Use
Criticism and comment: quoting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
News reporting: for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
Research and scholarship: quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
Nonprofit educational uses: it is ok for a teacher to photocopy limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
Parody: A comical way to ridicule another author
Hunt, Dianna. "Suspect Set to Plead Guilty in Movie and Music Piracy Case." Star Telegram 1 Jan. 2012: 5B. Print.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
"Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office." Copyright in General (FAQ) | U.S. Copyright Office. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Andrew Barlow
DeleteThis was a great way for me to learn about the copyright laws, and I learned so much from reading this.
-Alli Bliss
DeleteI learned a lot about copyright/fairuse from this. Thanks, helped a lot!
Alex Dames
ReplyDeleteWell written with lots of good information, thanks for posting Andrew
Facts of Fair Use ETHAN PAYNE
ReplyDeletethe following types of uses are usually deemed fair uses
•Criticism and comment -- for example, quoting or excerpting a work in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment.
•News reporting -- for example, summarizing an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report.
•Research and scholarship -- for example, quoting a short passage in a scholarly, scientific, or technical work for illustration or clarification of the author's observations.
•Nonprofit educational uses -- for example, photocopying of limited portions of written works by teachers for classroom use.
•Parody -- that is, a work that ridicules another, usually well-known, work by imitating it in a comic way. this is an emaple of copy right
Copyright and Fair Use
ReplyDeleteBy: Alli Bliss
Copyright is the legal right to a product. The Congress enacted copyright laws in May of 1790. Copyright is meant to be reasonable, keeping people from stealing the credit of other’s work. It is also meant to allow the progression of the arts and sciences in society, allowing for portions of work to be sold or used academically for free. Creators of copyrighted work have the option to share in different ways, selling rights to a single consumers or to entities. Tangible media can be copyrighted, it simply must be in a viewable form. Original work is protected by copyright at the moment of completion, however the copyright can be strengthened be becoming registered with the US.
Copyright is impacted by Fair Use. Fair Use is a limitation set to copyrights to allow portions of works to be used without express permission from the creator. Fair use was created to allow the furthering of knowledge, researchers and students using each other’s work. For the most part, if a particular usage seems fair, it is. Fair use applies only to copyrighted materials, not to random works or those in the Public Domain, where work ends up 70 after the creator’s death. Acknowledgment of the original creator in a work is non-infringing.
If I were to create a multi-million dollar product which, after hitting the market, was immediately followed by a string of knock offs, I would have little choice but to simply reinforce my copyright. “You get what you pay for,” the Recording Industry Association of America wrote in the Star Telegram. Knockoff products are everywhere, and difficult to regulate. I could possibly copyright my design, preventing a theft of the basic premise of the product. However copies could still end up in flea markets, where they are “Probably not legitimate,” the Recording Industry Association of America tipped.
Were I to become a hit movie producer, I would be upset if people were to produce masses of pirated copies of my film. An enormous amount of time and effort are put into the production of any work, especially a film. I would take measures to ensure the copyright of my movie, as it is unfair to have work illegally distributed. “In Texas… music piracy costs an estimated $760 million and nearly 6,000 jobs,” Dianna Hunt wrote. Future earnings would be hugely and negatively impacted.
Works Cited
Band, Jonathan, and Jonathan Gerafi. "The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook." Infojustice.org. 20 Mar. 2013. Web. 31 Mar. 2015. .
Winstein, Keith. "Introduction to Copyright Law." MIT Open Courseware. Massachusettes Institution of Technology, 1 Jan. 2006. Web. 1 Jan. 2015. .
Andrew Barlow
ReplyDeleteCopyright and fair use policy:
In 2012 the star telegram printed a newspaper talking about how five people were arrested because of the copyright policy. All of these people were copying popular movies. The copyright and fair use policy is very important because it is a third degree felony and can be up to “$250,000 in fines.” It can affect everyone that made and was involved in the media. Because of those people copying those movies and other media the people in the industry lost more than $2 billion in wages.
Being someone who buys movies is affected these movies can also be held accountable. After purchasing the product you have to make sure you don’t copy the music or other media illegally. It affects my life by when someone want to share media with other people they have to make sure that they don’t copy it illegally. Fair use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of media may be copied if quoted correctly.
5 things I learned about fair use
1. I learned that there are certain laws when using certain media such as print and music. Teachers are not exempted from this rule when it comes to classroom use. 2. The copyright protection is only protecting the way the authors have expressed themselves, and it doesn’t extend to any ideas they have. This makes it very easy for their work to be pirated or stolen.
3. If you would like to access something you need to contact the copyright author because the copyright office is not allowed to give permission.
4. Even if you just take a phrase from a movie you must give credit to the original author. 5. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
Imagine how it would feel if you wrote a book that would be able to make millions and instead of making that you only make a small fraction of that because someone was able to pirate your book and sell it for much cheaper and because of that no one would buy the original movie.
Andrew Barlow
ReplyDeleteCopyright and fair use policy:
In 2012 the star telegram printed a newspaper talking about how five people were arrested because of the copyright policy. All of these people were copying popular movies. The copyright and fair use policy is very important because it is a third degree felony and can be up to “$250,000 in fines.” It can affect everyone that made and was involved in the media. Because of those people copying those movies and other media the people in the industry lost more than $2 billion in wages.
Being someone who buys movies is affected these movies can also be held accountable. After purchasing the product you have to make sure you don’t copy the music or other media illegally. It affects my life by when someone want to share media with other people they have to make sure that they don’t copy it illegally. Fair use is the doctrine that brief excerpts of media may be copied if quoted correctly.
5 things I learned about fair use
1. I learned that there are certain laws when using certain media such as print and music. Teachers are not exempted from this rule when it comes to classroom use. 2. The copyright protection is only protecting the way the authors have expressed themselves, and it doesn’t extend to any ideas they have. This makes it very easy for their work to be pirated or stolen.
3. If you would like to access something you need to contact the copyright author because the copyright office is not allowed to give permission.
4. Even if you just take a phrase from a movie you must give credit to the original author. 5. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
Imagine how it would feel if you wrote a book that would be able to make millions and instead of making that you only make a small fraction of that because someone was able to pirate your book and sell it for much cheaper and because of that no one would buy the original movie.
In my opinion, these rules are very fair because they are the only thing that protects the true author. Also, these rules are very necessary because without anyone can pirate any type of media which ruins the authenticity of the item. If I was to make something that would make a lot of money I would not want anyone to steal my item because that item is what’s bringing in the money for my family. My hard earned money would be going to someone who has nothing else to do in their life but steal other people’s ideas.
Winstein, Keith. "Introduction to Copyright Law." MIT Open Courseware. Massachusettes Institution of Technology, 1 Jan. 2006. Web. 1 Jan. 2015.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.
Parness, Adam. "Copyright Kids!" Copyright Kids! FA©E Kids Subcommittee of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Web. 25 Mar. 2015.