Topic 83

Copyright issues by Ronald Chu

Relating to the technological terminology, images, sounds, and presentations can be defined as multimedia, slideshows, virtual reality, games. Now, what is a copyright? It is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. Simply put, it is a “right” to “copy” original works. The symbol for copyright is ©.

How does the copyright for images, sounds, and presentations actually work?

Without copyrights for ISP (images, sounds, and presentations), people would be using them for their own websites and take full credit. There would be plagiarizing all over the place but no one would know where the original came from and if you were really copying anything or not. Copyright laws have helped website makers and other people with originals tremendously. To make sure that you are not breaking a copyright law and plagiarizing, you must site the source of where you got your “information” from and give credit to the original owner. There are a many guidelines for ISP copyrights. Here are some of them:

1. All copyright and licensing tags should be put on a line of their own.

2. Along with a tag, specify the source or copyright holder information. Provide as much detail as possible.

3. If an image is not licensed under a standard license, please specify what the actual license states.

4. If you tag an image as requiring attribution, please specify who needs to be attributed.

5. If multiple categories apply to an image, add all that apply.

There are many ethical and social issues concerning this. The ethical issues are concerning the problem of “who has the original” and “who has the right to copy.” It is immoral to plagiarize and use other people’s works and claiming that you are the original owner. The people responsible are the original owners and the people who use their “information” for their own benefit (regardless if they are plagiarizing or not). The same set of people is also accountable. The laws that apply are copyright laws. However, it is not really a “real law” that is used in courts. You can usually get away with copyright laws, unfortunately. There are not many alternative decisions. Usually, if you try to find “information,” there is always a copyright so you have to source the site or wherever it came from. If you do not want to do that for some reason, then your only alternative choice is to not use that “information” or just make up your own. The consequence to this alternative decision is that you will not be able to get the “information” and if you make your own, it will probably be not as accountable and reliable.

The social issues concerned with this subject are similar to its ethical issues. This “technology”/”law” was formed probably about the same time when people began to use other people’s “information.” Copyright laws are also used in books, not only IPS. There are no stakeholders, which mean that there are no disadvantages or advantages either. I don’t think there are any solutions to this problem except for just giving up. This affects people all around the world, including in our own country. Without IPS copyrights, we would not be where we are right now.

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Copyright issues by Ronald Chu (Edited by Nitish Gautam)

Relating to the technological terminology, images, sounds, and presentations can be defined as multimedia, slideshows, virtual reality, games. Now, what is a copyright? It is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. Simply put, it is a “right” to “copy” original works. The symbol for copyright is ©.

As stated in Wikipedia.org:
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the right to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is ©, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).
Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or "works". These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Designs or industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions. Copyright is one of the laws covered by the umbrella term 'intellectual property'.
Copyright law covers only the form or manner in which ideas or information have been manifested, the "form of material expression". It is not designed or intended to cover the actual idea, concepts, facts, styles, or techniques which may be embodied in or represented by the copyright work. For example, the copyright which subsists in relation to a Mickey Mouse cartoon prohibits unauthorized parties from distributing copies of the cartoon or creating derivative works which copy or mimic Disney's particular anthropomorphic mouse, but does not prohibit the creation of artistic works about anthropomorphic mice in general, so long as they are sufficiently different to not be deemed imitative of the original. In some jurisdictions, copyright law provides scope for satirical or interpretive works which themselves may be copyrighted. Other laws may impose legal restrictions on reproduction or use where copyright does not - such as trademarks and patents.
Copyright laws are standardized through international conventions such as the Berne Convention in some countries and are required by international organizations such as European Union or World Trade Organization from their member states. (wikipedia.org)

How does the copyright for images, sounds, and presentations actually work?

Without copyrights for ISP (images, sounds, and presentations), people would be using them for their own websites and take full credit. They might earn money and use it to their own advantage without the author’s permission. This would be very unfair to the author who actually made the content and should be getting money or the respect and credit for it. There would be plagiarizing all over the place but no one would know where the original came from and if you were really copying anything or not. It would be cheating in its own unique way.
Copyright laws have helped website makers and other people with originals tremendously. To make sure that you are not breaking a copyright law and plagiarizing, you must site the source of where you got your “information” from and give credit to the original owner. There are a many guidelines for ISP copyrights. Here are some of them:

1. All copyright and licensing tags should be put on a line of their own.

2. Along with a tag, specify the source or copyright holder information. Provide as much detail as possible.

3. If an image is not licensed under a standard license, please specify what the actual license states.

4. If you tag an image as requiring attribution, please specify who needs to be attributed.

5. If multiple categories apply to an image, add all that apply.

There are many ethical and social issues concerning this. The ethical issues are concerning the problem of “who has the original” and “who has the right to copy.” It is immoral to plagiarize and use other people’s works and claiming that you are the original owner. Besides the fact of it being immoral, it is illegal in today’s age to steal. The people responsible are the original owners and the people who use their “information” for their own benefit (regardless if they are plagiarizing or not). The same set of people is also accountable. The laws that apply are copyright laws. However, it is not really a “real law” that is used in courts. You can usually get away with copyright laws, unfortunately. There are not many alternative decisions. Usually, if you try to find “information,” there is always a copyright so you have to source the site or wherever it came from. If you do not want to do that for some reason, then your only alternative choice is to not use that “information” or just make up your own. The consequence to this alternative decision is that you will not be able to get the “information” and if you make your own, it will probably be not as accountable and reliable.
Another very serious issue concerning copyright at the moment is about websites. Hot linking is also concerned as stealing. Hotlinking means to embed, or directly link to a file or image or music or any type of media from another website. A solution to this problem is that we give credit to the owner or ask permission before

The social issues concerned with this subject are similar to its ethical issues. This “technology”/”law” was formed probably about the same time when people began to use other people’s “information.” Copyright laws are also used in books, not only IPS. There are no stakeholders, which mean that there are no disadvantages or advantages either. I don’t think there are any solutions to this problem except for just giving up. This affects people all around the world, including in our own country. Without IPS copyrights, we would not be where we are right now.