According to Google,
Copyright is the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. One scenario example of what would constitute "copyright" would be downloading free music from a peer-to-peer network. Unless if an individual had permission from the copyright holders, it would be copyright infringement. There can be many different scenarios but another example would be downloading articles and publishing them with your name on it.
Fair use can be from copying any copyrighted material. Fair use implies to people that copy or transform any materials that isn't theirs. In other words, is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement. One example of fair use can be
quoting a few lines from a "50 cent" song in a music review.
Shepard Fairey was pleaded guilty for copyright infringement over his famous image of Barack Obama. Soon the Federal court finds that Shepard had destroyed the documents that would prove that he had not used the photo of Obama. Fairey was ordered to pay $25,000 in fines in a dispute that dates back to 2009. This goes to show that even professionals could get caught for copyright infringement.
There are ways in which copyright may be completely avoided altogether without having to interpret the fair use doctrine, and that is through what is known as public domain and creative commons. Copyright Protection applies automatically to many types of creative works. Public Domain, according to
UC is often a work of the United States government or the copyright has been expired, etc. Another free legal tool, according to
Creative Commons, can be a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge and this could be known as a creative common.
Halloween
before image, used with permission, Creative common
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