Rights & Permissions
Find out when you need to get permission to use someone else’s work, how to lawfully access existing materials, how to protect your work with copyright, how to license and exploit it, and what you can do if someone else has infringed your copyright or has accused you of copyright infringement.
Protecting
Copyright is a set of ‘exclusive’ rights, giving creators the right to control the use of their work and the ability to earn from it. The term ‘exclusive’ in copyright law means…
Licensing & Exploiting
If you own the copyright in a work, you are free to exploit it on your own or license the use of it to another party (such as a book publisher). ‘Exploit’ in this context means to develop or make use of it.
Using & Reusing
When creating new work, it is natural to be inspired by the work of others. However, there is an important distinction between simply being inspired and unlawfully copying.
Getting Permission
When you want to use a work that is in copyright, you need to get permission from all copyright owners. Some works have several rights attached to them and each right may have more than one owner…
User-Generated Content
User-Generated Content (UGC) is any form of content, including text, images, videos, reviews etc., that is created by users and published on online platforms. Creation and dissemination of UGC is…
Algorithms
It is important for users to have a better understanding of how to deal with the influence of algorithms on the production, distribution and consumption of creative works, and the implications for copyright.
Data Scraping & Data Mining
This section aims to provide a picture of the different layers of legal protection one needs to consider in order to make informed decisions around data scraping and data mining.
Terms & Conditions
Terms and conditions are a set of rules. These rules generally form a contract between you, the user, and the service provider, whose website you are visiting.
Legal Access
It does not matter whether you are dealing with a video clip, text, music, photos or computer icons, if you want to make sure your use is lawful, you need to have accessed that material legally.
Enforcement
Useful guidance on what you can do if you think someone has infringed your copyright, or if someone has accused you of copyright infringement.
Creative Commons
Works distributed under a Creative Commons licence are different from other copyrighted works, but they still attract copyright. The benefit of Creative Commons licensing is…
Most of the original content on the Copyright User’s website is distributed under a CC-BY 3.0 licence, meaning that you can share, remix, alter, and build upon Copyright User content for any purpose, as long as you credit the author of the content. Where content on Copyright User is not distributed under a CC-BY 3.0 licence, this will be indicated clearly.