Copyright information Connor

Copyright is the protection of an idea that you made into a physical form. Copyright stops people from taking the idea that you made and making money off of it. Works are only copyrighted when they are put into a physical form like a drawing, photo, music, plays etc. Things that are ideas and that aren't in physical form aren't copyrighted. When someone writes a book in 2000 and they die in 2003 the copyright lasts until 70 years after their death so the copyright would end at 2073 unless their family renews the copyright. This also goes for a joint authorship the same thing happens if the book is published in 2000 and the one of the authors dies in 2003 and the second author dies in 2018 so it would end in the year 2088 the copyright lasts until 70 years after the lasts author death unless ether of the authors family's renew the copyright. After the copyright ends the item falls into Public Domain.Copyrights for images can be customized to the authors wishes like for example if the author wanted to let people use the picture without getting emailed they could put a logo on the picture that sys that people can use this as long as they don't make money off of it. This is called Creative Commons there are several things this allows you to do by putting this tag on your picture you can allow certain things like (Nc) this means no commercial use and their are several more like (by) give credit to the author and (nd) no editing the image and (sa) meaning the work can be altered but as long as it is kept under the same license.This allows authors to let people use their pictures and other images without people emailing them this could help with an authors busy schedule. If a worker in a company makes an item and it gets a copyright the company the worker works at has the copyright. So if a worker at a car company invents a new car and it gets copyrighted that car company owns the copyright because the person that made the car works at that company.