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Review the principal of copyright by famous tales

The video [1] is put out by students of Stanford that review the principal of copyright through famous tales.

[1] http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/biguploads/Fair(y)_Use_Tale_Stanford_Cut-21MB.mp4

Bloggers' Rights

Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) is an organization that bottle for bloggers' rights in the courtroom. Their website lists some bloggers' rights as below[1]:

• Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers). Blogger is a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections.


• Bloggers are entitled to free speech. Internet bullies shouldn't use copyright, defamation, or other claims to chill your legal speech.


• Bloggers have the right to political speech.


• Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous. Blogger could keep his or her identity private when he or she blog. it is as constitutional right to anonymous speech online.


• Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do.

[1]http://www.eff.org/issues/bloggers

The book of Law of Blogging

There is a book on the "Law of Blogging" was released on 2007. At first, this book discuses about legal definition of blogging and then illustrate some topic that blogger should know as copyright, defamation and threats from businesses, government, cults and non-profits and individuals. It’s available for $9.95 directly from the author as a PDF download only.

source: http://www.slaw.ca/2007/09/11/the-law-of-blogging/

Copyright in Photography

According to copyright a photographer can control copying , transmitting and reproducing pictures but Incorrect interpretations of copyright law and how applying it in the internet make much mistakes about photography copyright. Some of them mention in following:
• One of the more usual mistakes about photograph copyright is that a person took the picture ,did not pay money so there is n’t any infringement of copyright.it is obviously false and that can be judged in the court.
• Another common misconception is that photographer tags its name and an authorized © style copyright sign then it does not have copyright, it is incorrect in most of countries around the world and hasn’t been since 1989.The person took the picture is owner and his/her works has right of the copyright.
• One of the worst mistakes is that if photographer post his/her pictures in a public place such as internet so people can copy and use them simply.This again is not true .Just in the case that photographer state“I place these images in the public domain for free use by anyone” you can use the images.
Copy right laws simultaneously defend your pictures and avoid you take works of other people. Therefore you should pay attention when dealing with images on the internet.

Source: http://www.photographywebsite.co.uk/copyright-in-photography-c494.html