What is copy right? - Emily Wootton

Copyright is a form of protection for literary, musical, artistic, and any form of someone's work. You think "Hey let's just copy this poem, it doesn't belong to anyone!" Wrong... everything on the Internet or off the Internet has a owner or once had a owner. There's a copyright law; the 17 U.S code.
Some specifics of copyright laws or protection laws are; made for hire, is a term in which the copy may get protection, so nobody can copy the stuff and if anyone breaks that law they will go to court . If the person who took or copied their work without permission made any money it will be paid to the owner. If there is two authors then you split the money equally they're called joint partners.
Things that can be copied freely are titles, ideas, and work with no originality. The first copyright was March 1st, 1989. The letter C or "Copr" is used a lot to let you know that this is protected by a copyright law. Most of the time you see CC as the label. This protection lasts for 70 years after the person's death. So I would advise you to not just copy that picture of Justin Bieber and paste it but to ask the owner of the picture.
There is Creative Commons license (CC). Which it protects the owner but there are certain rules that the owner wants people to follow. There's certain ways some owners do if they don't want you to touch their work or change it, But most of the rules say don't change or seal for profit.
So as you can see everything is not free on the Internet. Everything is protected by some kind of rule or law, so don't copy something before you know for sure it's alright.


-Emily