How does copyright work?
Copyright protects the creators of any original text, artwork, recordings, films, computer programs and some databases. It gives you automatic control over the rights to copy, perform, broadcast or adapt your material, though limited use is allowed without your permission for private things, teaching in schools and reviews. Copyright for literary, dramatic, musical and artistic material and for computer software lasts for a lifetime of the creator and an additional 70 years from the end of the year in which the creator died. Copyright for other material lasts for 25, 50 or 70 years. Although copyright is automatic, its up to you if you which to enforce the right, if you add the copyright symbol © or the words 'copyright - all rights reserved' with your of creation and your name, this counts as enforcing the right. keeping copies of the original work and dated records of when it was disclosed to other people will help if anyone is adapting your work illegally. This is very important as it helps back up cases in which work has been stolen and etc.
COPYRIGHT CASE
Cariou vs. Prince
Patrick Cariou’s Yes, Rasta (2000), and Richard Prince’s Canal Zone (2008)
The Case
Richard Prince is an artist — one who transforms other peoples work to create new meaning in his work. For an exhibition in the Gagosian Gallery, Prince took 41 images from a photography book by a French photographer Patrick Cariou, claiming that he created new meaning out of the photographs. Cariou said that it wasn’t fair, but a case of copyright infringement.
The Outcome was a judge ruled in favor for Cariou in 2011, claiming the changes made to Cariou’s photographs weren’t significant enough to back up a change in meaning . However, the case is still currently in appeal and the final decision has not yet been made.
'Imitation vs. inspiration: don’t be a designer who creates work too close to that of another. You have to make sure you are creating something original and not derivative.'
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