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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Muddiest Point Video Blog
Here is my Muddiest Point Video Blog- I look forward to hearing your comments.
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I am confused as to when something passes into the public domain. I understand that anything before 1922 is in the public domain, however, anything after 1998 is up for grabs as to whether it is in the public domain or not.
ReplyDeleteAfter 20 years, someone who owns the original copyright or their successors can file for an extension. How do you know if that extension was granted or not? Also, anything where the copyright was extended may still contain the original date of copyright, which makes the original date useless in determining if it is in the public domain or not.
Does a person have to gain access to the Catalog of Copyright Entries and check each and every item they are interested in using? This brings up the question if it is even worth trying to find out so you can use something or just skipping the use of anything already produced. That leaves us with re-inventing the wheel so that we can have something that is usable without fear of violation copyright.
It really confuses me and makes me hesitant to use anything I didn't produce myself. Then, you still have to worry if what you did is close enough to something that someone already has produced that they can claim you stole their idea and infringed on their copyright that way.
Karjala, D. (2012, January 15). How to determine whether a work is in the public domain. In Value of the public domain. Retrieved November 23, 2014, from http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/publicdomain/SearchC-R.html
Copyright law is more confusing than it needs to be. How is someone supposed to know when something is in copyright or not? The Fair Use Act just makes it more difficult to know what you can do.
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