Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Fair use and Copyrights


 


 

Copyright Laws…Wow… again Wow… after reading all the material, then doing some research to find more, my heading was spinning. I never realized that it all began "When the first Congress enacted laws to protect creative property, when it faced the same uncertainty about the status of creative property that the English had confronted in1774 and that in 1790, Congress enacted the first copyright law." At that time; a Federal copyright and secured that copyright for fourteen years, if the author was alive at the end, then he could opt to renew the copyright or his work would have passed into the public domain. Since then it has change a great deal, the years that you could own a copyright have increased, there are controls, not permissions. Today there is even more to it with the web, e-books just to name a few. Even the Fair Use of copyrighted materials is so hard to understand, and it doesn't provide an effective guidance for the use of others' works. Except for when in "doubt, obtain permission."

I believe the internet is harming copyright owners and their livelihoods. But part of that is possible, cause they are not double checking on ways to secure there copyright before posting it on the internet or they have not done there research on how to keep it safe. I will be re-reading and doing more research on this before I post or publish anything. In a article Field v Google it states you can prevent Google from caching your site by using the "no-archive" metatag, and also prevent from indexing your site by using 'no-index' metatag or putting the "user-agent:*Disallow: /'command in the website's robots.txt file.

Here is a list of several articles I found regarding the Fair use of Copyrighted materials:

Fair use: Further Issues

Copyright Basics: Fair Use

Fair use of copyrighted materials:

Center for Social Media

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