Copyright Termination

Web Design and Copyright Infringement

Basically everything you see on the web is copyrighted as soon as it is put on the Internet. Pictures, videos, text, music and other Internet works are Copyright Protected. If you are considering Philadelphia web design to give yourself a web presence, remember not to “borrow” anything from another website without getting the written permission of the website owner. If you engage in Philadelphia web design without adhering to this simple rule of thumb, you are likely committing copyright infringement.

A friend of mine named Stuart Carpey is an accident attorney in Philadelphia, and he was actually the one who first pointed out that some of the images on my blog might be copyright infringements because I had not secured the express permission of Facebook (for instance) even though I used the Facebook icon on my blog post. Naively, I didn’t realize I was doing anything wrong because I saw plenty of other bloggers doing the exact same thing. Apparently we are all infringing on Facebook’s copyright by doing this. So now I’ve got to go back through all my blog posts and create a new graphic that I don’t “borrow” from anyone.

Be wary of “borrowing images” for your blogs. It is tempting to search Google images for that logo or picture that really highlights the blog post you are writing. When you find that perfect illustration, it is very easy to right click it, copy it, and paste it into your blog post, or to simply add a link to it so that it appears on your post even though the actual image remains on the other server that you borrowed it from.

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Anyway, the US copyright law stems from the time when the United States “acceded” to the Berne Convention in 1988.This international agreement was originally written in Switzerland to recognize the copyrights of material written in other countries.What this agreement means to you is that your work is automatically copyright protected as soon it is “fixed in a tangible medium of expression, ” meaning written down, posted, recorded, etc. The actual time the copyright lasts depends on whether you wrote the program, text, etc, as an employee or on your own. If you wrote it as an employee, then your copyright lasts 95 years, but if you wrote it on your own, then your copyright lasts your whole lifetime, plus an additional 70 years.

If you want to enforce your copyright in court you have to register it with the government. To do that, go to copyright.gov/eco/ and fill out the form that pertains to your work. It costs and you get a registration certificate for your copyright.

So what do you do if another website reposts your content without your permission? You can send them a “takedown notice” and they usually will comply. If your copyright is registered, it is a lot easier to get the other site to comply.

The next time you are contemplating a new Philadelphia web design, make sure you don’t inadvertently copy someone else’s work, or you may be in

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Copyright, Copyrighting and Online Copyright Abuse. Save
Yourself the Headache by Reading This!

Lets start with copyright infringement.

It is easily explained as copying someone else’s work without
gaining permission first. This includes publishing other peoples
work to your web site, newspaper, magazine or even just
downloading it to your computer can be seen as copyright
infringement. The last is known as a grey area.

Other peoples work means anything created by a person. It can be
written content, graphical content, musical content or even
html, JavaScript, PHP, CGI, patterns, textures, animations. It
is anything tangible that’s created by a person. NOTE: A idea
cannot be copyrighted due to the fact it is not tangible.

Example….

I have just finished reading a book on how to service my car.
The author of the book explains in detail the different ways a
person can go about the job. He also details tips and tricks he
has learnt over the years that speed up the servicing.

Now after putting into practice what the author wrote I could go
and write my own book on how to service my car, right?

Right!

Why? Well the author can only copyright the content of his book
(words, pictures… etc) he cannot copyright the practice or
idea there in. This can be viewed in many different ways so if
your unsure it is always best to at least email the author
before taking any action with there material.

The short and sweet way of looking at this is your content no
matter what creative medium it falls under is automatically
copyrighted to you for the duration of your life. It can only be
broken if you decide to give your content away for free (you
must state that it is copyright free material) or you die and
nobody registers for the copyright to your material.

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This leads us to Public Domain material…..

Before 1978 copyright only lasted 27 seven years. These days it
lasts the duration of the creators life. Therefor from the
minute you create your work it is automatically copyrighted to
you. It is still important to state this wherever you decide to
publish your material.

Public Domain material has no copyright and can be used in
anyway you see fit. Also unless you change it in someway it is
still Public Domain. So if you find a book that is in the Public
Domain and you start selling it on EBay, there is nothing
stopping the people who buy it from selling it themselves.
That’s why it is important to change the material. Add something
to it so it stands out or modernize the language so people can
understand the material better. Any changes copyright the “new”
book to you.

Anything published before 1928 falls under Public Domain. That
is of course unless someone got there first and changed the
material in some way. You have to watch out for that. It could
get you into trouble.

That’s the basics. For a more detailed insight into copyright go
to GOV.

Also depending on your country things maybe different so make
sure you know where you stand.

Personal Note……

Copyrighting your work is a good thing. You are the sole owner
of what you create and so you should be. There is a problem here
though. Once your material is published to the web, book,
magazine or even TV your leaving your material open to abuse.

This could be viewed as unfortunate but truthfully if it wasn’t
for copying other peoples HTML code I would have never learned
HTML. It was the same for Java Script and Graphic Design. Even
writing and game creation were learnt from copying others first.

It is also well known that internet marketers keep something
called a Swipe File on there computer. This is where they paste
items of interest they find on the web. It is a digital
scrapbook basically.

People learn by first copying and then creating. It is the
natural order of life to copy others. So if you want to be
strict about your copyright that’s fine. Just remember how you
learnt what you know before you draw a line in the sand:

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