1.+What+is+Copyright?

Provide a definition of Copyright. Copyright is the right of ownership of your own, original work and ideas. This prevents others from stealing your own work and ideas and making it their own, or building on top of your ideas and making them theirs.

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" ** Legislation ** In Australia, copyright law is Commonwealth legislation, the [|Copyright Act 1968] and its associated Regulations. ** What is copyright? ** Copyright is a legal right given to the authors or creators of works.

Under copyright law, the copyright owner has a number of exclusive rights including the right to publish the work, control copying, prepare derivative works and perform of their work as well as the right to make the material available online. · Copyright is really a set of rights – copyright owners have economic and moral rights as well as legal rights. · Copyright law aims to protect the creative work of the copyright owner from unauthorised use by others. · Copyright law also tries to balance this right with the general public’s right to access information. [|Back to Top] ** What does copyright protect? ** Copyright protects the written expression of an idea or concept - it does not protect the actual idea or concept itself. Copyright doesn’t give the author of a work a monopoly over the ideas or information expressed in that work – anyone can use the ideas contained in a work provided they do not use the exact words used by the author to describe the idea or concept.

There isn’t necessarily a connection between the ownership of an item and the ownership of copyright in the item. When you buy a book or an artwork you do not automatically acquire the copyright in that book or artwork. The copyright remains with the author or the artist unless there has been an agreement to transfer ownership of copyright." (Sydney, 2009)

“Copyright is a type of legal protection for people who produce things like writing, images, music and films. It is a legal right to prevent others from doing certain things (such as copying and making available online) without permission ” (Admin, 2009)

“A simple definition of copyright is that it is a bunch of rights in certain creative [|works] such as text, [|artistic works], music, computer programs, [|sound recordings] and [|film] s. The rights are granted exclusively to the copyright owner to [|reproduce] the material, and for some material, the right to perform or show the [|work] to the public. [|Copyright owners] can prevent others from [|reproducing] or communicating their [|work] without their permission or may sell these rights to someone else. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, styles or techniques. For example, copyright will not protect an idea for a [|film] or book, but it will protect a script for the film or even a storyboard for the film. Copyright is a separate right to the property right in an object. For example, this means that the person may own a book or painting will not also own the copyright in the book or painting unless it has been specifically assigned to them. In Australia, copyright protection is automatic. There is no need for copyright registration in Australia, nor is there a legal requirement to [|publish] the [|work] or to put a copyright notice on it. A [|work] will be protected as soon as it is put into [|material form], such as being written down or recorded in some way (filmed or recorded on an audio tape).” (1.1 What is copyright)

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