There are three main moral rights of the copy right laws, these are the right of attribution which means creator of a work has the right to be identified as such, this means that if you have the permission of the original creator to use their copyrighted ideas you have to credit them in your work to show that they are a part of your work and to recognize them for their piece on your work. Some people who allow people to sample their music only want to be credited with the work where as others want royalties for their work.
The right of integrity which means the owners work may not be altered or changed without consent is to help protect copyright owners from theft as well as improving things especially in the music industry, some argue that if know one copied other music there would be more musical beats out to improve the industry, but others argue that sampling and using extracts of others peoples music improves the industry by creating remix’s enhancing the song or take a classical track and turning it into a hip-hop track thanks to a rap artists unlocks the full potential of the idea.
The false attribution rule means no one can create a copyright product and attribute it to someone else. Although this is very rare to happen it is against the law to create something and claim it’s copyrighted in someone else’s name or makes up a name and pretends that its owned by the made up person.
An example of this would be someone who sets up a website selling products and then sets up another website pretending to be a customer or a reviewer of their own website and saying that their websites product are really good value for money and so.
Although prior to the internet days the copyright law was rarely needed to be enforced as copying books and other media products took so long it wasn’t worth doing as the cost of photocopying each page plus time taken would not be economically beneficial
However online movies and other products can be downloaded in a matter of minutes meaning a lot of products are being stolen.
Some people are against the copyright laws claiming that you can’t own culture and that people should be allowed to use other people’s products. They argue that culture grows off using all available work to create new work thus opening new work for people to enjoy.
They also argue that for educational purposes copyrighted material should be allowed to be used.
For example a couple of years ago the BBC set up an educational website where it printed a lot of valuable educational material for school students however educational books which retail on average £12.99 (and have been criticised on prices of educational materials) complained that the new BBC website was stealing its business by offering this information and the BBC was forced to close down the site and offer its ‘bite size’ website instead much to the disappointment of students and teachers who supported the site by pointing out that none of the sites information was plagiarized from anyone else.
The Creative Commons (CC) is an organisation dedicated to pointing out which products have been given prior consent to be used by others for certain purposes which the original owner of the product has licensed it for, for example one owner may allow his work to be used for education purposes using (CC) while another may allow anyone to edit their work and do as they please. The creative commons symbol can now be placed on YouTube videos when people upload to show that people may use your videos to create their own for example.
Sites like YouTube have had many long legal issues over copyright often being criticised by record labels and copyright owners for not checking to see if videos contain copyrighted material, YouTube claims that it only checks videos when they are flagged by users as it would be impossible for them to check all videos because that claim that 20 hours of video are uploaded every hour to their severs.
However YouTube has come down harder on copyright laws in recent years allowing music companies to check the audios of videos using a computer system to see if anything is copyright although this has proved unpopular with users it has remained popular among the record companies.
An image found using google advance search to only allow creative commons images.
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