Janet started off by telling us that she's a lecturer of Journalism at Glyndwr and she then gave an overview of what copywriter is. Part of the Intellectual Copyright legislation covers the output of creative endeavour and this covers literature, art, industry, science and engineering. Copyright is a small element of property rights and the current law is called Copyright Design and Patents act 1988. This covers design, trademarks, patents and copyright. The definition of copyright is when somebody has created a piece of work and it is then protected by Copyright, from any tampering such as alteration, copying or being used by someone else.You have total rights over it in seeing who can and can't copy your work - it also gives you the right to make money from your work and creative effort.
The copyright also gives you the right to be identified as the creator of the piece of work and
It is there to protect the right of people skills, creativity, labour and time.The important part is that it must be original and have derived from some creative effort. As soon as something original has been created, the copyright then comes into effect and it doesn't have to be applied or registered for.In layman's terms. It was described as your ownership of a car or washing machine as being something separate hence copyright is separate from the piece of work that has been created.
Diminishing the myths
- Copyright can protect my ideas ( it only applies to something that is tangible ) for ideas a patent has to be applied for.
It was interesting to hear about which companies had been taken to court due to copyright infringements.
Breaching copyright is actually a civil offence where the claimant can seek damages and this can lead to individuals having to pay out large sums of money. We then went onto hearing about selling your copyright, giving it away and even leaving it in will. You can even sell something but retain the copyright. It can be an asset even to your livelihood. It also falls into a category of moral rights such as you have the right to be identified as the owner and creator of the piece of work. The other is something called the integrity right - you have the right as the copyright holder, to dictate how your piece of work is used.
We went into more depth in the lecture of computer programs and production companies. Just halfway into the lecture I became lost and overwhelmed with information and hearing the word copyright being repeated so often in sentences. I decided to cut my losses and takeaway what I had learned in the beginning of the lecture.
We were also drawn to the attention of the Internet and how widespread it has become, so today more than ever we need to be aware of our rights because it has come so vast we may never even realise our work has been copied, tampered with and sold on with a profit being made.
Our relationship with the Internet is still relatively young it is only as time goes on do we begin to find out what we have let into our homes,with everything there are pros and cons. Sometimes the Internet can be our best friend and our enemy at the same time. Therefore it is up to us to become aware of safeguards on many levels such as previously and copyright.
To find out more about copywriting and the legislation act , please clicks on the link below
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents
Images were taken from various websites for illustration purpous only! ( honestly )
Some quotations are extracts from the lecture
Delivery 7/10
It was presented in a nice non-rushed manner with interaction from the audience. A film was also shown to us with a speaker from YouTube addressing issues of copyright.
Many areas where covered regarding copyright issue and the laws, I found this a very factual lecture but it became confusing an overwhelming to retain all of the wealth in information
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