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Today we talk about Digital Photos. More specifically we talked about Raster and Vector images. The assignment was to take a picture, resize it and post it to the blog. We also talked about Copyright Law.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Says and does the following:1) Crime to circumvent Software anti-piracy measures built into most commercial software2) Outlaw code cracking devices3) Outlaw password encryption breaking4) Protect minors against certain materials on the internet 5) Protect person privacy6) Allows security testing 7) Limits service provider’s liability8) Requires webcasters to pay fees to the music creators for playing their music.Taken from: http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf and http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm
Photos & information on Websites are copyrighted. In academic situations you must give credit or sight source. Anything you write is automatically copy righted. Two ways for the Poor Man’s copyright: 1) Send mail to yourself, Keep it sealed and another way for the 2) Write on document © Stan Gates (FirstName, LastName) 2008
Free Works (Books, Music, writing and so on) = work you do not have to give credit reference to the creator. 1) They are public domain, Free and have no copyright 2) 50ty plus years old you have to renew copyright. A fair(y) use Tale = Video on internet, using Disney cartoons to tell about copyrights can be found in U-tube. The stuff you write in chat room could by copyrighted. Star wars = George Lucas gave up movie rights but kept toy rights which turned out to be a very lucrative aspect of the movie business.
Some Points to note about Copyrights: 1) Copyright laws help the individual get credit/payment for his work/creativity. A person must have an agreement with the owner of the movie in order to charge for the movie (sale it) because making money on the movie requires the owner also receive payment/compensation under whatever agreement he has made with the person. 10% of a book can be copied for education purposes. It is against the law if you are copying more than 10% of the pages from a book and distribute it to others. It is against the law if you are copying the book and selling it without an agreement with the owner. According to copyright law you can make a copy of friends CD, Book and so on if the friend is the owner of the CD or item, gives you permission and doing so is not piracy of commercial material like software and music. It is not permitted to make a copy of my friend’s CD if the CD represents your friend’s original work and he did not give you permission to copy it. If the CD is represents software or music your friend purchased and the owner of the music states( usually on the package or licensing agreement) it not to be reproduced and distributed without certain conditions being met. It is wrong to share MP3 files if the music in the form of MP3 belongs to the creators and record companies and sharing the files without the compensation to the above mentioned. This violates copyright law. It is illegal to install software that one did not purchase because most software states package or during purchase in their licensing agreement that the software is not to be distributed without compensation back to the owner or that another license must be purchased. Most commercial software is only leased to individuals while the copyrights for the software remains with the commercial owner or company or individual who created it. The people who benefit the most form copyright laws are creators of the work benefits because they receive credit for the work and possible payment for the use of the work. The creators are also protected from someone stealing his idea.
