Thursday 5 June 2008

Explain potential legal implications of using and editing graphical images P6

Copyright

Copyright is where somebody has the right to the copy of the creation, normally for a limited time only. Copyright is a law and therefore is illegal to be broken, however you are able to copy an image as long as credited is given to the creater and you are not using it for money. You can only copyright an physical creation and not an idea.
Identifying ownership
Identifying ownership helps you find out whether or not a graphic can be reused. Images sometimes have the name of the owner or who the image is copyright too on the image or close to. However sometimes there is no name printed on the image so normaly the image will the belong to the publisher or website.

Gaining Permissions
To gain permission to the image you need to contact the copyright owner and ask permission for the image, usually if you are using the image to make money, a percentage of that money needs to go to the copyright owner.
Copyright Fee
Copyright free images can used by anyone. For example www.freeimages.co.uk/

5 comments:

Bruno Lopes said...

Good explanation.

Could you explain me the 'Use of examples from multi-page document'? I'm having bad understanding about this question.

Please, e-mail me as soon you read this comment.

Thanks.

AlexSatriani said...

Great work, thanks a lot ;]

AlexSatriani said...

Great work, thanks a lot :]

TR said...

That isn't true, you cannot use, for example, an image if the copyright holder does not agree. It's not a matter of finance. It's a matter of the way something is used as well.

SamAmes said...

Eeerm, a lot of grammatical errors and very breif, also no mention of creative commons.