In this task, I am going to be
talking about the benefits and issues of copyright involved with digital
graphics. At a school or work environment, the internet is the main source for
information like images, which generally needs the authors permission to be
used, but not in all cases. So, when we use an image from the internet, we are
breaking copyright laws if permission isn’t required, we don’t have fair use or
the image isn’t copyright free. Even if the author gives you permission to use
their work, it can set you back in so much money to use it, and it may not be
worth the amount to be paid to use the image.
Copy right is when the owner of
original work has rights to their work. So if an author of an image, for
instance, doesn’t want other people to use their work, they can restrict the
use of their work, making it illegal to use it. In some situations the author
of the work allows other people to use their work, but they ask for the person
using it to give them money – known in some cases as royalties – but this is
the original author giving the person wanting to use their work permission to
use the work. Authors of work copyright their work to make sure people don’t
use the work without permission to use it, where copyright laws are needed to
ensure people who use work that aren’t theirs without permission are prosecuted.
Copyright free is when an image is free to use by the public
without permission of the author due to the copyright protection expiring or
the author allowed their work to be used without permission. The quality of the
image isn’t always brilliant due to this, so the image may not be used as much
as images needing to have permission acquired to use. Fair use is when a person
has a document that allows them to use material when they want to without
permission, even if it is copyrighted material. Some organisations have fair
use given to them automatically, like schools, if the image is used for an
educational purpose within the school.
An image is technically already copyrighted as soon as it is
created or taken. But, in some instances, like Instagram, the copyrights go to
the applications creator and the original owner loses the copyright right’s to
their image as soon as they upload it to the application. To ensure you have
copyright for an image, you get a form, which is sent to the government to get
copyright on the image, where the image wanting to be copyrighted is sent with
the form. The author will need the image to be on their SD card, if taken on a
camera, or another way to show that the image is theirs, to prove that it is
their image and get the copyright applied to the image.
If you want to use someone else’s image in our work, we have
to ask the author if it is okay to use their image first, then if we are
allowed to, we need to reference where we got the image from. Also, the author
of the image may ask for so much money to let the person use their image, which
the person wanting to use the image has to pay to be allowed to use it and if
it isn’t payable, they would need to decline and look for a similar image and see
if they can use that one instead. If and when the person wanting to use an
image finds a price they are happy to pay, the author and the user will have a
contract to tie the agreement.
Copyright
limits the use of images found on the internet
as permission is needed to use an image or other work, so time is need to
contact the owner and for them to reply, then if the person wanting to use the
image doesn’t get permission, then they have to contact someone else to use a
different image. This can be time consuming
and the person wanting to use an image may not have the time to ask so many
people and it may be faster to just make an image themselves. Copyright in some
situations also limits the ownership of the image, like on Instagram, the image
isn’t actually owned by the person who put it on, but by Instagram, even though
they didn’t take or make the image.
If someone’s work has been reproduced or copied without
permission, then they are using the work illegally and can have several
prosecutions. One prosecution is if a person is caught using copyright material
without permission they may get sued for the use of the copyrighted material.
The person may also have to pay the legal fees to be sued. The person using the
work without permission may have to stop using the work that is copied and the
court may confiscate any copies of the work during the trial, then after the
trial, they would be destroyed. The person using the work without permission
may have jail time, community service, probation, possessions repossessed like
the equipment used to copy the work or their property or work privileges
revoked.
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