Jason Hardin came to class to talk to us about copyright laws. Copyright violations are federal crimes, plagiarisms are ethical violations. Copyright-legal recognition on part of the government ensures creators of their work that they can control the production of their work and profit from it. Copyright originated in 1790, and is in the constitution and predates the bill of rights.
We learned that copyright is imortant becasue it promotes individuality, and intellectual development, innovation, creativity, industrial progression etc.
A copyright is good for the authors life plus 70 years, it was originally 14 years.
The law used to be 50 years after death, but Disney got their representative to take it to the house and change it. It’s a felony to commit a copyright infringement involving more than 10 copies and a value of more than 2500 dollars. HEOA-must make an annual disclosure to students about copyright and campus policies, must develop a plan to combat unauthorized file sharing to include the use of technology-based-deterrents, and must implement a system to provide alternatives to illegal downloading. It was interesting to know that you don’t have to submit copyright forms to have copyright. This was interesting to me because I did some copyrighting of my own over the summer when I recorded an album. Creative Commons is an interesting website that provides different forms of copyrights.

Fair Use:
Not all educational use is fair use, and it is less defensible to recreate commercial works. Intended purpose of reproduction is a factor when looking at fair use cases. One factor the court looks at is the effect of reproduction on revenue stream.


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