Sunday 8 April 2007

Copyright (SPP)

For automatic copyright, your work has to be completely original and this implies to your own creative and design idea and must be made by you.
If your design is original and you do not intend to reproduce it, you will receive automatic copyright protection against illegal copying.
Copyright does not protect ideas for a work. However, when an idea is fixed, for example in writing, copyright automatically protects it. This means that you do not have to apply for copyright.

Reproduction right
Only you can reproduce that piece of work in a fixed form.

Modification right
Only you are allowed to alter it or allow somebody else to alter it.

Distribution right
Only you are allowed to distribute.

Public performance right
The right is read /broader work in the public domain.

Public display right
Same as above

You can sell you rights permanently or if you intend to use other people’s work, use the ones you can buy or ask the author.
Copyright is automatic right regardless if a copyright warning is not given.
The amount of a person’s work you use is irrelevant, you still need permission.