Week4 EOC Copyrights

October 24, 2013

Copy Rights

Copyrights are sure important when it comes to securing your hard work and your name. “The owner of a copyright has the exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, license, and to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work.” (Cornell) When applying or registering your work for copyright makes sure it is fully covered or paid correctly because it’s protection wouldn’t really work. If improper completion is unattained you might be fined, less of course you immediately do proper cancelation. Here’s another great way to define copyright by NOLO’S PLAIN-ENGLISH LAW DICTIONARY… “A bundle of exclusive rights granted to the author of a creative work such as book, movie, song, painting, photograph, design, computer software, or architecture. These rights include the right to make copies, authorize others to make copies, make derivative works, sell and market the work, and perform the work. Any one of these rights can be sold or licensed separately through transfers of copyright ownership. Copyright rights are acquired automatically once the work is fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Registration of the work with the Copyright Office offers additional benefits to the copyright owner.” A good side note is that don’t confuse trademark, patent, and copyright because these three are all different in there. A trademark is simply an image, phrase, or symbol that identifies that certain work or person’s work. A patent has it’s limit until the invention is “in exchange in public disclosure.” Once I have my work out there I certainly would like to have them secure and credited under my name.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/copyright

http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/basics/definitions.jsp

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/about/copyright.html