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10 Big Myths about copyright explained

An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.

All The Following is incorrect :


1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."

2) "If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation."

3) "If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain."

4) "My posting was just fair use!"

5) "If you don't defend your copyright you lose it." -- "Somebody has that name copyrighted!"

6) "If I make up my own stories, but base them on another work, my new work belongs to me."

7) "They can't get me, defendants in court have powerful rights!"

8) "Oh, so copyright violation isn't a crime or anything?"

9) "It doesn't hurt anybody -- in fact it's free advertising."

10) "They e-mailed me a copy, so I can post it."

11)"So I can't ever reproduce anything?"

In Summary

• These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required.
• Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that.
• Postings to the net are not granted to the public domain, and don't grant you any permission to do further copying except perhaps the sort of copying the poster might have expected in the ordinary flow of the net.
• Fair use is a complex doctrine meant to allow certain valuable social purposes. Ask yourself why you are republishing what you are posting and why you couldn't have just rewritten it in your own words.
• Copyright is not lost because you don't defend it; that's a concept from trademark law. The ownership of names is also from trademark law, so don't say somebody has a name copyrighted.
• Fan fiction and other work derived from copyrighted works is a copyright violation.
• Copyright law is mostly civil law where the special rights of criminal defendants you hear so much about don't apply. Watch out, however, as new laws are moving copyright violation into the criminal realm.
• Don't rationalize that you are helping the copyright holder; often it's not that hard to ask permission.
• Posting E-mail is technically a violation, but revealing facts from E-mail you got isn't, and for almost all typical E-mail, nobody could wring any damages from you for posting it. The law doesn't do much to protect works with no commercial value.

For more

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html