copyright and CC licenses

Your friend took your picture and created an original design with it. You loved her design SO much that your friend gave you her design as a birthday present. Who owns the copyright to the image?

My friend. Even though it's my face in the design, she used my picture with my permission and created an original intellectual property with it. It doesn't matter if she gave it to me. As a copyright holder, she can give out the original or copies of her design if she wants

Fair use

The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations (schoolwork and education, news reporting, criticizing or commenting on something, and comedy/parody).

Attribution- ShareAlike CC BY-SA

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms

Attribution- NonCommercial CC BY-NC

This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

ShareAlike (SA)

allows you to use the item in anything you want as long as your creation is shared under the same license as the original work.

what does it mean when an image is in the public domain?

anyone can use it for any purpose at no charge and without obtaining permission.

what does Creative Commons (CC) do?

establishes standards and methods for copyright owners to state the uses they allow for their works published on the Internet.

Which of the following is a potentially legitimate defense to copyright Infringement?

fair use

(Fair use) Student use of a copyrighted graphics or image for private learning

fair use, because the use is educational and does not affect the work's commercial value.

If a work is in the Public Domain, it means you can use it freely once you get permission.

false

In order to copyright an original design I make in this class, I must register it with the U.S. Copyright Office.

false

John was hired by Frito-Lay to create an original design for the package of one of their new potato chip products. The new product will be available to the public on grocery store shelves all over the country. Who owns the copyright for the design John created?

frito-lay

what works are not given copyright protection?

ideas, procedures, names and slogans, and familiar symbols or designs

where can someone find an images copyright?

it might appear in Adobe Bridge or Adobe Photoshop when you select or open the image.

Public Domain (CC0)

licenses allow artists to release their works to the public domain

NonCommercial (NC)

means that people can use your work in their own creative works as long as they don't charge for it

(Fair use) Use of a copyrighted graphics/image to promote a free public event

not fair use. An event is not among the uses listed as fair use, and public use could negatively affect the work's commercial value.

"doctrine of fair use"

permits the use of copyrighted information without permission, if the work is used for specific purposes.

NoDerivs (ND)

requires that you not change the material when you incorporate it into your own work. You can use NoDerivs material freely, but you must pass it along without changing it.

what are the two legal alternatives for using free graphics?

royalty-free stock photos (image banks) and Creative Commons.

Copyright

the legal term which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it.

Public Domain

the state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

when can someone use a work freely without permission?

when the copyrights have expired are in the public domain

intellectual property or "works for hire"

works that belong to the employer or contractor that commissioned it, not to the creator.

Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND

This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change them in any way or use them commercially

Attribution- CC BY

This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.