Copyright Research Olivia & Luke

What is copyright?

• Copyright gives you ownership over the things that you have created.

• The exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, perform, film, or recorded literary, artistic, or musical.

• If people were to breach this they would have the problem that they could be sued by the person who owns the piece of work.

What does it protect

• Copyright protects original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of machine or device.

• Without copyright you often find that people copy your products. If you copyright it and somebody copies it you can take legal action on this person.

Examples

• With E4 you find that you have video guidelines and you have to have the consent of everyone in them.

• If you are using music you have to either get them specially composed or you have to request for copyright use of the music.

• With the BBC everything that they own is copyrighted to them as a company and you cannot download anything unless it is given authorization by them.

How Does It Relate To Our Charity? • The works of authorship contained in this website, including

but not limited to all design, text and images (the “Materials”), are owned or licensed by Make-A-Wish and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use, or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without our prior written consent. Unless permitted otherwise in writing, you may only access the Materials located within the website for your personal use. This means you may download copies of Materials for personal, noncommercial use only, so long as you neither change nor delete any author attribution, trademark, legend or copyright notice. When you download Materials, you do not obtain any ownership rights to the Materials.

Resources

• http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/video-guidelines-for-e4-com/id/400287255

• http://wish.org/content/privacy-policy-and-terms

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3281849.stm

• http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/subcategory/display/id/400281681