Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 21 views

    Worksheet #5 Activity 3 - Informative Essay

    Uploaded by

    Anne DS
    The document discusses copyright and fair use in relation to human rights. It provides basics on copyright, explaining that copyright protects an author's work from being duplicated or appropriated without permission. It also discusses fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted works without permission under certain conditions like criticism, comment, and teaching to prevent overly rigid application of copyright law.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Worksheet #5 Activity 3 - Informative Essay

    Uploaded by

    Anne DS
    21 views2 pages
    The document discusses copyright and fair use in relation to human rights. It provides basics on copyright, explaining that copyright protects an author's work from being duplicated or appropriated without permission. It also discusses fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted works without permission under certain conditions like criticism, comment, and teaching to prevent overly rigid application of copyright law.

    Original Description:

    Original Title

    Worksheet #5 Activity 3 - Informative essay

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document discusses copyright and fair use in relation to human rights. It provides basics on copyright, explaining that copyright protects an author's work from being duplicated or appropriated without permission. It also discusses fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted works without permission under certain conditions like criticism, comment, and teaching to prevent overly rigid application of copyright law.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    21 views2 pages

    Worksheet #5 Activity 3 - Informative Essay

    Uploaded by

    Anne DS
    The document discusses copyright and fair use in relation to human rights. It provides basics on copyright, explaining that copyright protects an author's work from being duplicated or appropriated without permission. It also discusses fair use, which allows limited use of copyrighted works without permission under certain conditions like criticism, comment, and teaching to prevent overly rigid application of copyright law.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    Activity 3.

    Write an Informative essay

    Copyright and Fair Use in Relation to Human Rights

    Basics of Copyright Copyright is the lawful right of an author, artist, composer or other creator
    to control the use of his or her work by others. Generally speaking, a copyrighted work may not
    be duplicated, disseminated, or appropriated by others without the creator's permission. The
    public display or performance of copyrighted works is similarly restricted.

    There are exceptions to this rule notably the fair use doctrine discussed in the following Section
    —but generally the unauthorized use of a copyrighted work is copyright infringement, and may
    subject the infringer to civil and criminal penalties under federal law.

    The present Copyright Act dates from 1978, but copyright is an ancient doctrine, with its roots in
    Elizabethan England. The framers of the Constitution authorized Congress to "promote the
    progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors. the exclusive
    right to their respective writings. Today, copyright law goes far beyond "writings" narrowly
    construed. It extends to literary, dramatic and artistic works, musical compositions and computer
    programs. Copyright protects only the form in which ideas and information are expressed.
    Copyrights expire after a certain period of time. And the law allows certain limited uses of
    copyrighted material by others, without the creator's permission. The most important such use is
    "fair use," which is discussed in the next Section. Copyright does not protect ideas, nor does it
    protect facts. It protects only the form in which ideas or facts are expressed. For example, you
    may read a copyrighted paper and appropriate its ideas, or facts it conveys, into your own work
    without violating the copyright. However, you may not reproduce the actual text of the paper
    (unless fair use or another exception to copyright protection applies), nor may you evade this
    prohibition simply by changing some words or thoroughly paraphrasing the content.
    Basics of Fair Use, Fair use is the right to use a copyrighted work under certain conditions
    without permission of the copyright owner. The doctrine helps prevent a rigid application of
    copyright law that would stifle the very creativity the law is designed to foster. It allows one to
    use and build upon prior works in a manner that does not unfairly deprive prior copyright owners
    of the right to control and benefit from their works. Together with other features of copyright
    law like the idea/expression dichotomy discussed above, fair use reconciles the copyright statute
    with the First Amendment. The fair use defense is now codified in Section 107 of the Copyright
    Act. The statutory formulation is intended to carry forward the fair use doctrine long recognized
    by the courts. The statute provides that fair use of a work “for purposes such as criticism,
    comment, news reporting, and teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use,
    scholarship, or research)” is not an infringement of copyright.

    You might also like