Copy Right Laws

Copy Right Laws is defined as: " the legal right of the owner of intellectual property"

You can get a copy right for many different things such as, music, art work, design, models, etc. Once you buy a copy right you own it for life +70 years after death in the United States. In other countries you would own it for life +50-100 years depending on the country. Not all types of work can be copyrighted. A copyright does not protect ideas, discoveries, concepts, or theories. Brand names, logos, slogans, domain names, and titles also cannot be protected under copyright law. for your work to be elgiable to be copyrighted it needs to be in tangle form

There is a difference between licensing something to people and a copyright. A copyright is the legal term to prove that somebody owns the intellectual property. But a licensing is the legal term used to describe the terms in which that personal can use the copyrighted material.



Different Creative Commons licenses

  • CC BY

    • This license allows the user to do what ever they want with the work as long as they give credit to the creator. Can be used for commercial

  • CC BY-SA

    • his license allows user to alter the work in anyway shap or form as long as they give the correct credit, don't use it for profit, and license it the same as the orginal.

  • CC BY-NC

    • This license allows you to do what ever you want to the work as long as you don't use it to make money and credit the user.

  • CC BY-SA-NC

    • This license allows the user to edit the work in any way shape or form as long as they dont use it for profit, give the correct credit to the creator, and license it the same as the orginal

  • CC BY-ND

    • This license allows the user to copy and redistribute the work for profit as long as it is the orginal unaltered work.

  • CC BY-NC-ND

    • This license allows the user to copy and redistribute the orginal unaltered work, non-commercialy, as long as the correct credit is given to the creator