copyright + creative commons

In this new age of technology its hard to keep your work really ‘your work’, anything that goes up on the internet will come back to bite you on the arse. If a professional photography makes a blog about there photography I could totally just go onto their site and save one of there photos and make it my desktop background, I dint pay them, even though they might of spent time and money taking that photo, within a click of a button its mine. Even though I do it and most of you probably do to we are essentially stealing their work and unfortunately thats actually ‘illegal’.
I remember in year 12 for my final Media project I made a film clip to the song ‘follow the sun’ by Xavier Rudd, I had to email like 50 different people to finally get to his manager just so that I could put a shitty little video over the top of his music, but rules are rules and I had to get copy right from her. And yes you guessed it… I did get the copyright and it was pretty cool cause I really couldn’t be fucked trying to find a different song.

In Australia the copyright protection is automatic there is no registration system, some of the things that copyright protects are:
– literary works
– artistic works
– dramatic works
– musical works
– films, sound recordings, broadcasts and published editions

You can be sued the shit out of if you breach copyright laws, well if they catch you.

But for those people or artists who want to be able to put their work out there for everyone to see but still want the credibility for it there is this awesome thing called ‘creative commons’. Its a world wide non-profit organisation that provides copyright owners with free licences allowing them to share, reuse and remix their material legally.

here is a nice little video to explain it a bit better: