Copyright and Creative Commons

This week I learned about copyright and creative commons laws. These sets of guidelines show how creators and innovators are able to protect his or her original works and ideas. According to the Fair Use and Copyrighting for Teaching article, copyright protects literacy, musical, dramatic, pantomime, graphic, motion pictures, and sound recording works. https://shu.instructure.com/courses/7745/files/453786?module_item_id=129374
For anyone trying to use a copyright work online they must contact the original user to be granted permission to use the material in any shape or form. From the original owner granting permission they acquire a license fee from the interested user. Overall, this system helps keep original artists be able to keep his or her work under there name. In this blog post, I will be referencing to the artist/creator by "original work" and the person wanting to use that work as "the user".

Another contributing factor that we use to save artists original work is Creative Commons.  Creative Commons is a way that original creators can share their work by how they create the license. There are multiple different criteras that one can incorporate. For examples, users that have Creative Commons they can just have the option of "Attribution by _". This allows everyone to know that you can share this piece of information but always have the original creator's name attached to it. Another option is having it as no commercial, which means a person can not sell the original work to anyone. However, a person could print out the picture onto a t-shirt but can not sell it. No derivatives is another option meaning that one can not change the original piece of work. This allows the original creator to not worry about people changing his or her ideas. The last option that one can have on his or her license is share alike. This criteria forces whoever is sharing the piece of original work that he or she cites the original creators. For example, lets pretend that sally wants to share a painting of a small village in Italy on her blog, she would still have to claim who was the original painter based on the share alike criteria.

This video described how the different options that you can use with Creative Commons that have different amounts of freedom for the interested user. https://shu.instructure.com/courses/7745/pages/understanding-copyright-and-creative-commons?module_item_id=129365 The least amount of freedom that a user can have with creative commons is the no commercial and no derivatives options. This limits the user by not allowing them to sell any of the original producer's work and one can not change the original work. Artists that use Creative Commons and just has the options of attraction and share alike have the most freedom. This allows the user to be able to do whatever to the piece as long as they keep the original creator's name on the post.