Remember however, that most journals ask you to hand the copyright of your writing over to them. This is important to take this into account if you later wish to deposit the article in an Institutional Repository. Consult the publisher website for more information. An author who publishes via an open access route will usually retain copyright.
Though it focuses mainly on the USA context, the above video gives a concise introduction to the copyright concept. IADT library subscribes to a range of electronic resources and copying restrictions which are governed by a license.
The Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Act is expected to replace the older act but has yet to be fully enacted. The act is still the law in relation to copyright at the time of writing. Students and lecturers should familiarize themselves with these laws.
The act has updated the provisions of the educational exceptions to include:. Those students are allowed to make copies of those works. There are a few exceptions to full copyright however, one of these being Creative Commons.
Creative Commons refers to a set of licenses that allows authors of papers and other works decide exactly how people may use their work and for what purpose. It essentially means that they can decide to what use their works can be made. There are six different licenses that are available that are made up of Attribution, that the author of the work should have their name recognised and attached to it, non-derivatives, whether or not the original can be changed, non-commercial, can they make money off using the item, and share alike that all work taken from the original must have the same creative commons license.
The six licenses combine allowances and stop some of these uses to form the different license. A breakdown of these licenses can be seen in the video below. It allows students and lecturers to see in what ways they can use certain works.
It also allows authors to easily make their work easy to share and accessible if they desire it. However, remember by using this license you signing away your rights to full copyright protection and lessening any financial incentives from the work.
That is, if think up the lyrics of a new song in your head, the lyrics are not protected by copyright. But the moment you write them down on paper or type them on a computer, record them on tape, etc.
The symbol is not required, however. You can obtain a greater degree of legal protection for your work by registering it with the U. Copyright Office. Doing so creates an official record of the work, its copyright owner, and the date of its registration.
If a dispute arises about use of copyrighted material, the registration becomes an important legal consideration. David Sarokin is a well-known Internet specialist with publications in a wide variety of business topics, from the best uses of information technology to the steps for incorporating your business. He is the author of The Corporation, Its History and Future Cambridge Scholars, on the role of big business in the modern world, and Missed Information MIT Press, , detailing how our social systems like health care, finance and government can be improved with better quality information.
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