Copyright

ummm...copyright is something I do not understand and quite boring but I know it is very important to a creator and company those sort of things. To be honest, I did not really paid attention to this lesson because there are so many difficult phases and terminology but I try to conclude the lesson in a few sentence.

According to wikipedia, Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time. The exclusive rights are not absolute; they are limited by limitations and exceptions to copyright law, including fair use.

Copyright is a form of intellectual property, applicable to any expressed representation of a creative work. It is often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of rights to use or license the work, and who are commonly referred to as rightsholders. These rights frequently include reproduction, control over derivative works, distribution, public performance, and "moral rights" such as attribution.

So basically it is a system to protect creator that their work would not be stolen by any random people who claim the work is done by them. There are a lot of materials that can be copyrighted like films, games, animations, music, computer apps,drawings and illustrations etc and nearly anything could be copyrighted as long as it is produced as the result of independent intellectual effort or a collaborative effort.

We should not copy, adapting, distributing the work that is copyrighted because we do not own those work. To use their work, it is essential to contact the owner to ask for permission or to pay for it.

We are also introduced with the creative commons license which is a non-profit organisation that provides a legal framework to allow people to share, remix and reuse work legally. I think this is an useful license for poor people like myself who want cool music in the background so badly but every music is licensed. This encourage the share of art and the creativity among the world that I think is something important to do! Stop being so selfish and share your work to the public unless you are wanting money so badly. I think art is priceless so why not share it and see how your work turns out on the others hand?