This blog is created to stimulate academic discussion in partial fulfillment of the degree of Doctorate of Computer Science in DIGITAL SECURITY AND INFORMATION ASSURANCE for the Colorado Technical University, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Courses includes - EM835 Information Accountability and Web Privacy Strategies; SC862 Digital Security; QuantitativeAnalysis; Software Architecture and Design - CS854;
Friday, January 14, 2011
Information Accountability & Web Privacy Strategies
Reference: 1. Copyright Information. Retrieved January 6, 2010 from http://www.arsny.com/basics.html
2. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 U.S. Copyright Office Summary. Retrieved January 4, 2010 from http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
3. Harris S. (2008) All in One Cissp. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
4. What is a Copyright? Retrieved January 6, 2010 from http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/1- what-is-a-copyright/.
Digital Copyright Basics
ReplyDeleteThe copyright law protects the right of an author to control the public distribution, reproduction, display, and adaptation of the original work of an artist, writer, and musician, a programmer’s source code and even manuals. It essentially stipulates that if you created it, you own it. In fact, it is the copyright law that assures that the ownership can have the following rights and sometimes even more:
■The right to reproduce the work
■to prepare derivative works
■to distribute copies
■to perform the work
■and to display the work publicly 4
According to Shon Harris (2008), “copyright law does not cover the specific resource, as does the trade secret law. It protects the expression of the idea of the resource itself instead of the resource itself”.
In USA, the Federal copyright Act gives exclusive legal backings to copyright protected works. Most of the copyright publications have warning labels known as copyright symbol (©). Having a copyright symbol is to actually tell the public that the work is protected by the copyright law. Meaning the full extent of the copyright law will be exercised if there is any infringement.
One of the fascinating things I found about the copyright law is that it only protect against unauthorized copying and distribution of an original work. I believe this is because the copyright essentially deals with how the invention is presented because it affords protection for both published and unpublished works.
The era of the internet has made the ways to control the distribution of digital works difficult. Copyright laws will have to be amended to take into consideration the new internet issues pertaining to copyright work.
In order to avoid being legally liable or risk legal actions under the Federal copyright law, you need permission from the original owner of a copyright protected work to copy, distribute or sell such an item. Unless of course, the work is in Public Domain which mean the copyright has expired and all the rights associated with the work have been rightly forfeited.
The US copyright law according to 1 state that section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following:
• To reproduce the work in copies or phono records;
• To prepare derivative works based upon the work;
• To distribute copies of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
• To perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
• To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work; and
• In the case of sound recordings, to perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission.
From the above, it is therefore illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the copyright law to the copyright holder.
Conclusion:
The enforcement of copyright protection varies from one geographical country to another. But the singular act is the protection of intellectual properties from theft, unauthorized distribution and used. In the USA, the federal government enforcing agency is the U.S. Copyright Office located in Washington DC.
Reference:
1. Copyright Information. Retrieved January 6, 2010 from
http://www.arsny.com/basics.html
2. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 U.S. Copyright Office Summary. Retrieved
January 4, 2010 from http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
3. Harris S. (2008) All in One Cissp. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
4. What is a Copyright? Retrieved January 6, 2010 from
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/1-
what-is-a-copyright/.