What is Copyright?
Copyright is a form of intellectual property. Copyright laws protect creators by restricting others from copying their work without permission.
Forms of work under copyright can include charts, diagrams, figures, music, moving images, tables, visual images, books, sound recordings, films and writing.
In Australia, the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), provides an exclusive right for a period time to artists, authors, designers or inventors or the assignee to reproduce or perform the original work.
Generally, this period of time is for the life of the author or creator plus 70 years.
For moving images such as films and sound recordings made after 1969, the copyright lasts for 70 years from the date the moving image was first published, while for for broadcasts made after 1969, the copyright is for 50 years from the year of the first broadcast (Australian Copyright Council 2014).
For copyright free images see 'Write a bibliography - image'
Information sourced and adapted from RMIT University
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Students are introduced to copyright, fair use, and the rights they have as creators.
Information sourced from Common Sense Education
You automatically get copyright protection as soon as you create an original work. In Australia, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 calendar years. Copyright protects not ideas themselves, but the form of expression of those ideas.
Information sourced from John Gibbs
