Copyright Advice
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10 Big Myths about copyright explained
An attempt to answer common myths
about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and
USENET/Internet publication.
In
Summary
- These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment
they are written, and no copyright notice is required.
- Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or
not, only damages are affected by that.
- Postings to the net are not granted to the public
domain, and don't grant you any permission to do further copying except perhaps the sort of copying the poster
might have expected in the ordinary flow of the net.
- Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain
valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you
are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own words.
- Copyright is not lost because you don't defend it; that's
a concept from trademark law. The ownership of names is also from
trademark law, so don't say somebody has a name copyrighted.
- Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted
works is a copyright violation.
- Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special
rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don't apply. Watch
out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal
realm.
- Don't rationalize that you are helping the copyright
holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission.
- Posting E-mail is technically a violation, but revealing
facts from E-mail you got isn't, and for almost all typical E-mail, nobody
could wring any damages from you for posting it. The law doesn't do much
to protect works with no commercial value.
For more
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html