Foogle Business - Legal Agreement - Internet Copyright - Information and Facts - TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE

Copyright Law - The law protecting the sole right of anyone who creates or publishes original literary, dramatic, and artistic works to reproduce them and to make use of them. The protection in England lasts for 75 years after the death of the owner of the copyright. Copyright is different from a patent in that it cannot exist in an idea, but only in its expression.

We declare that not all of what you see on our 500 or so WebPages is our copyright. Please contact us if any infringement is a concern.

Internet Copyright

All pictures, photos, diagrams and text have copyright; everything put to ink has a copyright. However, copyright works on several levels. Civil Law protects the sole right of anyone who creates or publishes original literary, dramatic, photographic and artistic works to reproduce them, and to make use of them, as they wish, without fear of pecuniary penalty. Copyright can last for, and continue to be in force for many years after a creator's death.

But it is the expression that is protected, not any fact and certainly not any idea; ideas per se, cannot be protected.

All works can demand a fee or at least some acknowledgment, as part of that copyright. But copyright is the right to exclude, not to publish; you cannot publish obscenities just because you automatically have the copyright. Needless to say, often copyright passes on to holders other than the creator, for whatever reason, such as through sale or death.

Copyright does also apply to the Internet, but as it is not anything that is put to print, it gets more difficult to licence. Moreover, due to the WWW application of this recent phenomenon, along with the varying international laws and various litigation problems, most of what you can see on the Internet has seemingly passed into, the " Public Hands of the World. " Or is used under the " Fair Use " limitation.

Only where a creator clearly states or pursues the copyright, reserving all rights, does copyright stand. Similarly, it is not illegal to go onto land, unless there is a big notice saying you must not. It is also not any clear copyright infringement if something is not clearly put under notice, and the item is used within a Fair Use criterion; such as for education or as an example of a genre. Nevertheless saying something is yours, when it is clearly not, is an infringement.

Basically the newer the creation the newer the copyright and the stronger the case it may have in any court. New creators generally hope to get some recompense for the use of their creation, and are therefore willing to challenge any misuse, but only if the end result out weighs the legal costs. Most disputes and there are very few, come to some agreement or the item is removed quite amicably.

MP3's and Movies are the classic example, but on the WWW, it is generally always the ISP that has to tow the line, the perpetrator can often escape, only to open the same Website, but with a new URL.

As the Internet is always a softcopy of anything, this is easily done, thus removing hard evidence. Should the copyright holder, print off a hardcopy as evidence, it becomes he / she that has some how committed a misdeed, by placing the item into a different medium, and one that could easily be counterfeited.

Internet Lawyer - Roy G Symonds BA [Law]
© Foogle Business 2000 - 2006

SITE MAP TO THIS SITE
*HOLD MOUSE OVER IMAGE LEARN MORE, BE MORE**
Last-Modified: 05/25/06 10:01 LINKS


	SITEMETER