Tuesday, 22 May 2012

Copyright

When creating work to be shown on the Internet, it is important to know about copyright. When everything that you create belongs to you, uploading should be generally fine. However, if you use someone else’s music or footage from someone else, it can go against copyright and be taken down. If you can acquire permission form the original owner to use it, you can use it, however it is rarely that smooth.

You usually have to pay to have permission to use music or footage; sometimes this can be very expensive. There are resources that are free to use called royally free recourses, these can be used without any repercussions. You can also produce content under the creative commons license, which means you can freely use the content, so long as you don’t alter it and give credit for the source.

There is some content which has had it’s licence expired, which means it is free to use. When 70 years have passed, you are free to use music form that artist, this used to be 50 years, until Cliff Richard changed it as he was losing money on music he created 50 years a go!

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