Copyright and Fair Use |
Copyright protects owners from having their creative work from being stolen by others. If copyrighted, you must get the owner's permission to use their work. This covers various mediums such as literature, music, artistic designs, etc. This does not include names, pen names, titles, slogans, etc. Fair Use is when copyrighted materials can be used without permission from the owner. These circumstances are allowed when it is criticism, a comment, news reporting, parody, etc. However, this does not allow full use of the entire work. The use of copyrighted materials should be limited to quoting, excerpting, summarizing, etc. |
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