This document discusses copyright issues and intellectual property laws. It notes that federal and international laws protect intellectual property and creators' rights over what they create, including literary, artistic, scientific works, performances, broadcasts, inventions, discoveries, designs, trademarks, and other results of intellectual activity. There are numerous creations not protected by copyright, such as works not fixed in a tangible form, ideas, facts, works by the US government, and works in the public domain. Fair use and Creative Commons licenses allow certain uses of copyrighted works for purposes like commentary and criticism. The document references a "Copyright on Campus" video about educating a university on copyright law and concludes with citations.
2. Copyright Issues
There are federal and international laws
utilized to protect what is commonly
referred to as intellectual property.The
laws and legislation protects the creators
interest by giving them property rights
over what they create.
These are commonly referred to as
copyright and related rights.
3. Copyright Issues
Subject matter that is protected include:
息 literary, artistic and scientific works;
息 performances of performing artists, phonograms, and broadcasts;
息 inventions in all fields of human endeavor;
息 scientific discoveries;
息 industrial designs;
息 trademarks, service marks, and commercial names and designations;
息 protection against unfair competition; and
息 all other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific,
literary or artistic fields.
4. Copyright Issues
There are numerous creations that are available for
use that are not copyright protected.
These include:
Works that have not been fixed in a tangible
form of expression by being written, recorded or
captured electronically.
Ideas, facts, data, methods, concepts, and the
like.
Works by the U.S. government.
Works within the public domain, and works in
which the copyright has expired.
5. Copyright Issues
There are many instances in which a copyright is in
place, however the work, or a portion of the work - may
be utilized in order to comment or criticize the work.
This copyright principle is referred to as Fair use.
The Creative Commons project utilizes Share-alike, a
copyright licensing term, to describe works or licenses
that require copies or adaptations of the work to be
released under the same or similar license as the
original.
6. Copyright Issues
Copyright On Campus Video
Jane the librarian educates her university
colleagues about copyright law and its
impact on the academic institutions use
of intellectual property.
This video is made available by the global rights
licensing experts at Copyright Clearance Center
as follows. We welcome you to watch this video
here, to link to this page from your websites and
intranets, or to download it for internal non-
commercial use (but solely in its entirety and
with attribution to us). Editing of this video is
strictly prohibited, and posting of this video
elsewhere on the Internet is strictly prohibited.
7. References
Copyright Crash Course. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from
http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu/
Copyright on CampusVideo. (n.d.). Retrieved January 26, 2015, from
http://www.copyright.com/
Various (Ed.). (2015, January 26). World Intellectual Property Organization.
Retrieved January 26, 2015, from http://www.wipo.int/