ADPR 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stock Photography, Professional Responsibility, Railways Act 1921

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Advertising and Public Relations
• Course: ADPR 3520
• Professor: Deal

Document Summary

Helping designers to know what their rights are as content creators and tell them how to avoid copyright infringement. Best used as a gate for determining what considerations should be made when finding content for graphic design work. Part of intellectual property law: work or invention that is the result of creativity: manuscript, photography, etc. Copyright is not something you have to apply for as long as it is in fixed form. If it only exists in your head it is not protected: recorded in some way written by hand/digitally, recorded audio/video, or emailed. Your protections: reproduce works, prepare derivative of works, distribute copies, display the work, a(cid:374)y of these (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e i(cid:374) (cid:448)iolatio(cid:374) of so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)opyright. Work for hire: the catch work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment. If working for agency or other company your stuff would fall under work for hire and the copyright belongs to the employer ant not you.