Austin Lake

Adam Audet

1-23-13

5^th hour

Copyright Questions

1.      Copyright is the protection of the work of an author by the government.

2.      Copyright protects an authors or multiple authors work.

3.      Your work is protected when you create it.

4.      No you do not. Your work is protected when you create it.

5.      It depends on the countries copyright laws.

6.      You have to contact them and ask permission to use it commercially, then you will have to pay a fee to use the rights.

7.      You cannot use any part of anybody else’s work without their permission.

8.      You would have to change the entire work. Using any piece related to the copyrighted piece is illegal.

9.      Yes, if the movie is under the creative commons license or if it is in the public Domain

10.  Fair use is using something without the author’s permission and citing that it is theirs.

11.  Plagiarism is stealing someone else’s work then passing it off as your own.