Learn+about+Copyright+Law

Copyright Research

1) What is [|copyright]? A system that protects the creator/owner's right of the object

2) What types of [|materials and items]would be protected under the copyright law? Copyright protects books, journals, CD’s, DVD’s, music, art, etc.

3) What types of [|materials and items]would NOT be protected under the copyright law? Copyright doesn’t protect ideas, facts, common knowledge, titles, names, short phrases, and blank forms

4) What are the [|possible penalties]for violating copyright law?(read over number 7, 8 and 9 to find the answer) You usually will be sued by the owner of the copyrighted object and you also can get thrown in jail if you go over a certain amount of value

Example: If my(our) company makes a new cream that can prevent a ball from deflating. Therefore we would have to take the ingredients to the copyright place to get it copyrighted.

Fair Use Research

1) What does it mean when something can be used under the [|Fair Use Law]? You can qoute and summarize and use things for curicular activities and they will be protected under the Fair Use Law. Also you can use parts of copyright material.

2) How do you know if your use of copyrighted material is [|fair use]? It is not all of piece of copyright material.

3) What tips should always be followed when [|using information found on the internet]? If you copy and paste or make into your own words you need to cite the website you got the information from.

Example: One of the employees writes a newsletter for the store and has a quote from another newsletter. That would be fair use because he/she is not using all of that newsletter.

Getting Permission

1) What are a student’s guidelines for using information from the internet in a **school related publication** or **[|multimedia presentation]**? The guidelines for a student for using the internet for ciricular projects etc., you should have an extra page that has all the websites that you visited and got info from.

2) When should you [|get permission]to use copyrighted material? You should get permission before you use the copyrighted material.

Example: Copyright Owners Name: Mr. John Jones Address: 1111 Jones Street Santa Barbara, CA 9021 Copyrighted Material: (drawn by Mr. Jones and posted on his personal web site, JohnsComics) Dear Mr.John Jones, I am kindly asking for your permission to use your work/material that has been copyrighted, Clipart Comic of Santa Clause. Thank you for time. Thank you, Noah Todd __ [|http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.shtml#whatc] __

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