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Friday, March 30, 2007
CMU festival explores art, copyright boundaries
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Artist, say hello to the many-tentacled monster that is American copyright law. It's there to protect you and your creative energies, but it's about as confusing as the tax code, and possibly even less fun."
This is really interesting. I can't even imagine the complications with trying to copyright something. Or even know where to start! This is just my opinion, but it seems that copyrighting is purposely difficult to figure out.
I atended the lecture on the first day of the festival, and i have to say that i never ralized in how many coapcities we find copyright infringements...its absurd....in essence it was explained that everything we do was created from something else... call it inspiration....but its aminor form of copyright...such interesting stuff, where to draw the line?
the same thing can be said of plagiarism. would you ever consider doing a bibliography for a collage made from magazine photos? all of those pieces are someone else's work, so they ought to be properly referenced - and since they are also copyrighted, if you are using it for something that isn't "fair use" they likely are due a licensing fee.
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This is really interesting. I can't even imagine the complications with trying to copyright something. Or even know where to start! This is just my opinion, but it seems that copyrighting is purposely difficult to figure out.
You don't have to do anything to copyright a work. Copyright vests with the author automatically.
I atended the lecture on the first day of the festival, and i have to say that i never ralized in how many coapcities we find copyright infringements...its absurd....in essence it was explained that everything we do was created from something else... call it inspiration....but its aminor form of copyright...such interesting stuff, where to draw the line?
the same thing can be said of plagiarism. would you ever consider doing a bibliography for a collage made from magazine photos? all of those pieces are someone else's work, so they ought to be properly referenced - and since they are also copyrighted, if you are using it for something that isn't "fair use" they likely are due a licensing fee.
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