This one will be a quickie, so lets rattle through.
COPYRIGHT
Basically, any work you do is yours unless you pass it on to others deliberately. Two major ways of passing on work:
- It can be licensed out, where the rights remain with the original owner, but the second party is allowed to publish it.
- Copyright can be sold on, in which case the rights of ownership pass completely, the original owner having no possession over the work from that point.
This only covers 'physical' work (for lack of a better word), intellectual property is not protected, e.g. facts and ideas are not protected by copyright, however words, images, sound recordings and video footage are. As a general rule, a result of someone's skill, creativity, labour or time IS protected. Contrary to popular belief, Copyright DOES NOT HAVE to be registered, but it helps when proving that the original work is yours.
In a journalistic context, this means that a news story is not protected in itself, but the words used to convey it are.
The major defence to all this is Fair Dealing, which applies if a short extract from a piece protected by copyright is used, provided it is properly credited to the author and is not extensive. This does not apply to photographs.
If Copyright is breached, as before, the injured party can claim for damages or seek an injunction.
Simples! (the use of which would not breach copyright)
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