Copyright is a part of everyday life, want to upload a Youtube video ? You have to check the copyright details. Want to write a song ? You have to check the copyright details. Want to create a mashup? You have to check the copyright details. To do any of those things and many more you have to check the copyright details, its hard to do much these days without being in danger of breaching the laws of copyright.
I chose copyright as my subject because I know so little about it and it is such a large subject with many different views.
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 creates several different categories of ‘work’ in which copyright can exist, and different owners or authors of works. The principal categories of protected work are:
-Original literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works, including photographs.
-Sound recordings, such as tapes, CDs and digital files such as MP3s; films, television and sound broadcasts, and cable programmes.
-The typographical arrangements of published editions.
Copyright does not exist in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work unless it is original. This simply means that some limited work or effort must have gone into the work by its creator and that it was not copied from another work. Even street directories or television programme schedules can attract copyright as literary works.
Owning the copyright in a work gives the owner the exclusive right to:
-Copy the work.
-Issue copies to the public.
-Perform, show or play the work in public.
-Broadcast the work or include it in a cable programme service.
-Make adaptation of the work or do any of the above in relation to an adaptation.
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