Copying any literary or artistic work without a license or written agreement.Downloading music or films without paying for their use.Creating merchandise for sale which features copyrighted words or images.Modifying an image and then displaying it on your company's website.Using a musical group's copyrighted songs on your company's website.Using copyrighted images on your company's website.Posting a video on your company's website which features copyrighted words or songs.These are some examples of activities that would constitute copyright infringement if you carry them out without first obtaining permission from the owner, creator, or holder of the copyrighted material: There are many types and forms of copyright infringement. However, despite federal law, which prohibits individuals from copying, publishing, transmitting, exhibiting, distributing, modifying, displaying, or otherwise using (whether for profit or not) the original creative expressions of others, copyright infringement-intentional and inadvertent-still can and does occur.Ĭopyright infringement typically involves someone using another person's original creative work, or a copyrighted work, without permission.
Copyright Act of 1970 was enacted to protect creative works from unauthorized use or copyright infringement.
Copyright is one of several categories of intellectual property (IP) protection, designed to safeguard the creator's, owner's, or holder's exclusive right to claim an original work as their own-when the work is fixed in a tangible medium.Īs soon as a work is written on paper, recorded digitally, or typed electronically-or anything that can be heard, seen, read, or touched-the work is granted copyright protection, normally for a limited period of time.
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