So You Don´t Just Want to Write, You Want to be Trendy, Too?
Well, no one can blame you for that.
One thing that you need to be careful these days is that with all the new media available copyright and intellectual property laws have become tricky ground. It is time to teach yourself the basics so you can protect your work and share it with others the way you want to.
One thing that you need to be careful these days is that with all the new media available copyright and intellectual property laws have become tricky ground. It is time to teach yourself the basics so you can protect your work and share it with others the way you want to.
Read Up on Copyright and Creative Commons in a Digital Age...
Think About Fair Use
Watch this video created by a University professor who was trying to test Fair Use. He claims that if Fair Use is to be a defense then this video he created to teach about Fair Use with only Disney movie clips, should be acceptable. Disney is one of the biggest corporations in the world, so if they can´t charge him for breaking copyright law because of his Fair Use defense then we should all be a little bit safer.
(Faden, 2007)
Now that you´ve informed youself, do you still want to write? Or do you want to try to explore something like graffiti and street art to get your message across?
References:
Creative Commons. (n.d.). Creative Commons. Retrieved November 17, 2013, from http://www.creativecommons.org
Teaching Copyright. (n.d.). Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright. Retrieved November 14, 2013, from http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs/3
Faden, E. A Fair(y) Use Tale [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Creative Commons. (n.d.). Creative Commons. Retrieved November 17, 2013, from http://www.creativecommons.org
Teaching Copyright. (n.d.). Fair Use: Remix Culture, Mashups, and Copyright. Retrieved November 14, 2013, from http://www.teachingcopyright.org/curriculum/hs/3
Faden, E. A Fair(y) Use Tale [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo