1. BY SUJANA ALAHARI, AUSTIN WYNTER, EUGENE KANG AND LARISSA HO Canadian Web Copyright Rules and Resources WRI330 Professor Vinall-Cox October 2011

2. The Basics: Part 1 What is copyright? What is Public Domain? What does copyright apply to? What is not protected by copyright?

3. What is copyright? Literally, “the right to control copying” exclusive legal right of an originator to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material…. …and to authorize others to do the same.

4. Who owns the copyright?  (Generally) the creator of the work  Originality is a requirement!

5. What is public domain?  belongs to everyone and is not protected by copyright. Consists of Works: Ineligible for copyright Where copyright is expired Benefits: No permissions required Ease of distribution Generation of creative content

6. What does copyright apply to?

7. What is NOT protected by copyright? Pre-existing material Ideas, facts, themes – not original! most titles, names, slogans, catch-phrases History and news Procedures and processes The above are all in public domain! the expression of ideas, etc., are protected

8. The Basics: Part 2 (the How To’s) How to: protect your original work figure out if the work you want to use is copyrighted use copyrighted work

9. How to protect your own work What do I have to do to protect my work?  ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!  copyright exists automatically

10. How to use copyrighted works the owner is protected under copyright common law A copyright notice is not required Not mandatory to register because it does not enhance protection, but…  can be used as evidence in court  Easier to ask for permission from you to use your work

11. How to figure out if the work you want to use is copyrighted ALL original work is copyrighted, unless ineligible/ expired Remember: A work does NOT need to be registered, published, or have a copyright notice on it to be protected by copyright. If a notice is used, you will see  the symbol - ©  the date  the name of the owner

12. Part 3: Publishing Content Facebook Youtube Wikispaces Posterous Spaces Flickr/Picasa

13. Facebook Prohibitions against IP violation Uploader retains copyright, BUT: Uploader grants facebook a licence:  Non-exclusive, Global use  Transferable, Sub-licenseable  Royalty-free  Ends upon account deletion, caveat!  http://www.facebook.com/terms.php (Sections 2, 5) http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

14. Youtube Standard YouTube License:  http://www.youtube.com/t/terms (Section 6) http://www.youtube.com/t/terms  Other users licensed Choice between SYTL & basic Creative Commons license Copyright education:  Youtube Copyright School: http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_resources http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_resources  Creative Commons Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons

15. Wikispaces Rules against IP violation. Same basic principles as facebook license.  License is irrevocable. Wikispaces can:  use, distribute, modify  adopt, publish, display & translate http://www.wikispaces.com/termshttp://www.wikispaces.com/terms (Sections 3, 6)

16. Posterous Spaces Uploader retains ownership Posterous gains fully-transferable rights:  reproduce, distribute  modify, transmit  derivative works http://posterous.com/toshttp://posterous.com/tos (“User Submissions”)

17. Soundcloud Grants SoundCloud & users/affiliates a license:  Non-exclusive  Worldwide  Limited  Royalty-free Uploader can limit/restrict content. http://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use#contenthttp://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use#content (“Grant of License”)

18. Picasa™ photo organizing software Permissions in certain cases:  Google-approved logo  Minimum 25px away from text/images.  Generic terms.  Google claims no ownership or control  Worldwide  Non-exclusive  Royalty-free http://picasa.google.com/intl/en-GB/web/tos.htmlhttp://picasa.google.com/intl/en-GB/web/tos.html (Section 4.”Your Rights”)

19. Part 2: Resources …or copyright-free/royalty-free work to use: Copyleft Creative Commons Aviary.com (editing software) Wolframtones.com

20. Copyleft Copyright disposes some rights included in regular copyright Makes it legal to modify and redistribute content Ensures productivity, creativity and innovation in cyber community For more information on copyleft: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonsoftwarecopylef t.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/nonsoftwarecopylef t.html

21. Creative Commons Organization providing copyright licenses and tools. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Allows creators to share their work with public Beneficial to all parties Creative Commons licenses allow distribution of copyrighted works

22. Aviary.com Aviary tools include Music creator, Vector editor, Audio editor, Image markup falcon tool Fun and easy to use Easy beginner tutorials available online

23. Wolframtones.com You can create your own music by mixing different genres Create multiple compositions You can share by e-mail or save your compositions You can also share it on Facebook!

24. Resources Canadian Copyright Act  http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/ Canadian Intellectual Property Office  http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet- internetopic.nsf/eng/h_wr00003.html?OpenDocument Canadian Heritage – Copyright Policy Branch  pch.gc.ca Intellectual Property Policy Information Site  http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ippd-dppi.nsf/eng/home World Intellectual Property Organization  http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

25. Resources Continued… Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission  http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/home-accueil.htm The Motion Picture Association -Canada  http://www.mpa-canada.org/?q=content/copyright-notice http://www.mpa-canada.org/?q=content/copyright-notice

26. LINKS TO ROYALTY-FREE MUSIC AND IMAGES USEFUL LINKS

27. Links to Royalty-Free Music http://creativecommons.org/

28. Links to Royalty-free Images

29. Works Cited The Canadian Intellectual Copyright Office The Department of Justice Of Canada GNU Operating System Creative Commons Wolframtones

30. Works Cited Continued Aviary