Unit 51 Task 2 – Digital Copyright & Permissions

Copyright and Digital Permissions

What I have learnt.

• According to Jisc Digital media there is no such thing as electronic or digital copyright - it is a convenient term that people use to imply machine-readable form. It is not a legal or copyright term.
• Copyright is not the only rights issue that will affect digital images. Other rights issues may include: moral rights; issues of privacy and of children and adults appearing in photographs; trademarks; design rights; and obscenity and indecency.
• A copyright is a property right so it can be sold traded or given away so ownership over a copyright can be change owners multiple times.
• Copyright only applies when a design or any idea is created. If a design is thought but not created it isn't under any copyright and can be used by others for their own benefit.
• You must ask for the owners consent before using the image for business or advertising purposes.
• You are allowed to take images from the web and use them without the owners consent IF you are using it for educational purposes only.
• You are not permitted to manipulate any images that may offend or upset the owner and/or the subject in the image.
• Images must be original which means it can not be replicated from something that already exists
• Most digital content found on the internet is protected by copyright
• The copyright law in the UK is centred around a number of legalisation pieces, they are: case law, directives, treaties and conventions and interpretation. 
• The copyright law first came into effect in the UK in 1989
• Copyright lasts 50-70 years after the death of the author.

Finding Websites that allow me to use graphics

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sky-View_ForestWander.JPG

I have used the website Wikimedia which allows me to browse through different categories of images which are free to use. This is the permission for the image.

 

You are free:

• to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to remix – to adapt the work

Under the following conditions:

• attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
• share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries/sports/sportsgames/slides/baseballcap.htm

I found the website Freeimages which has different images that I can use. The terms of use are here:

Examples of Acceptable Use: (Publication)	Unacceptable Use: (Redistribution)
Selling prints of images with the required attribution.	Uploading images to a photo sharing or stock photo site
Including versions of the image in a presentation slideshow distributed via CD	Selling Images as digital downloads
Printing the images in a magazine and distributing that magazine to 10,000 people.	Giving them away at full resolution as a collection of images on a CD

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/copyright-and-digital-images/#cp2