Copyright FactsAshley Cook

Intro to Tech. for EducatorsProfessor: Mrs. SchroederState College of Florida

Oversight

The definition of copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. There’s many issues and topics on copyright, but today we’ll be reveiwing the basics.

The three main issues:

1. Public Domain

2. Fair Use

3. Intellectual Property

Public DomainPublic Domain includes songs, books, movies, legislations et cetera that the general public have access to and are able to use.

Some examples of its misuse are the movies Batman and Devil’s Advocate.

Fair Use

With it, you are allowed to use copyrighted works without permission for teaching and research purposes.

Important Info:

Only a small amount of the works can be used.

Only fact-based, not creative, works can be used freely.

Under NO condition can you use works for commercial purposes.

Intellectual PropertyAccording to thecopyrightsite.com, “Intellectual property refers to unique and unobvious products of the human mind such as ideas, inventions, writings, speeches, names, industrial processes and the like. U.S. laws define four types of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Intellectual property is like any other kind of property in that it can be bought or sold, and like any other type of property, the owner has the right to control how it’s used.”

ClassWork

Today, students MUST pick one copyright violation case (excluding Devil’s Advocate and Batman), research it, and right a short essay on the topic. Essay has to address the specifics case’s violations and how it could have been avoided.