Copyright paper Noah

Copyright is a law that gives protection to somebody's art work, writing, or music. Copy right makes it illegal for somebody to use another persons work as if it were there's. In other words if you right a poem only you can publish that piece legally unless you give somebody else permission. We have copyright to prevent people from stealing Damon's work and taking credit for the work that they stole. That doesn't mean that you can't read somebody else's work, you just cannot take credit for the persons work. Copy right restricts your work so that only can make copies of your work, distribute copies of your work, perform your work publicly, and make derivative work. Not everything is copy right though. The copy right laws change for "joint authors". Joint authors happen when two people work together on a piece of art. When it comes to copyright and joint authors both Authors must want to share the work or give permission to somebody else. Also whatever money is made from the piece must be split between the authors. Some times joint authors can be more than 2 people. Joint authors can be a various number of people. Copyright lasts until 70 years after the death of the author or after the death of the author anyone one can copy right their work. If copyrighting your work you must register. You do not need to publish the book just register. The way to tell if you can use somebody else's work you can look for a cc inside a circle it means you can you use the work. CC stands for Creative Commons which allows you to use the work without getting in trouble. Wen you just see 1 c in a circle it stands for copyright. If you see that circle you should not take the work for anything because you will be breaking the law. Then only time you should ever take somebody else's work is if they gave you permission or if you see the double c in a circle with stands for Creative Commons.