Directions: Read the text below and write your responses on the answer sheet provided.
Read and respond
Copyright: the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.:works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 50 years after his or her death.
1. In your own words, what is copyright?
Intellectual property: property that results from original creative thought, as patents,copyright material, and trademarks.
2. In your own words, what is intellectual property?
3. Do you think original music is intellectual property?
Trademark: 1. any name, symbol, figure, letter, word, or mark adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant in order to designate his or her goods and to distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. A trademark is a proprietary term that is usually registered with thePatent and Trademark Office to assure its exclusive use by its owner. 2. a distinctive mark or feature particularly characteristic of or identified with a person or thing.
4. Critical thinking: What is another name for a trademark. Hint: The Nike swoosh is a famous one.
Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In United States copyright law, fair use is a doctrine that permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, search engines, criticism, parody, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship.
5. Is it OK for me to use photocopies from Wikipedia for teaching?
Copyright infringement is the use of works protected by copyright law without permission, infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.
Copyright does not cover ideas and information themselves, only the form or manner in which they are expressed.[20] For example, the copyright to a Mickey Mouse cartoon restricts others from making copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works based on Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of other works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies of Disney's.[20] Note additionally that Mickey Mouse is not copyrighted because characters cannot be copyrighted[citation needed]; rather, Steamboat Willie is copyrighted and Mickey Mouse, as a character in that copyrighted work, is afforded protection.
6. Critical thinking: Is it OK for Hillwood to use a Disney character in our yearbook without permission?
7. Research and critical thinking: If you find an on line photo that you want to use and publish in your artwork, should you do that without asking permission from the photographer? How much (a percentage) should you alter an on line image for use in artwork that you may publish?
8. Research and critical thinking: What is meant by public domain? Can you use a NASA photograph in your artwork without asking permission?
Sources:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement
Ethical & Legal Issues
Standard 25) Research and interpret laws and regulations protecting intellectual property as they relate to the design industry, such as copyright laws. Explain ethical and legal conduct that provides proper credit to those whose ideas and content have been used in creating new works. Distinguish between copyrights, trademarks, infringement, and fair use. Summarize and explain guiding principles in a written or oral presentation, as though leading a training or tutorial for fellow employees. (TN Reading 1, 2, 4, 6; TN Writing 2, 4)
