Copyright

What is Copyright?
Copyright is a set of exclusive rights that regulate the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally "the rights to copy" an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is "©". The letter C inside parentheses ("(c)"), although a common practice, has never been a legally recognized designator. Copyright may subsist in a wide range of creative, intellectual, or artistic forms or "works".
These include poems, theses, plays, and other literary works, movies, choreographic works (dances, ballets, etc.), musical compositions, audio recordings, paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, software, radio and television broadcasts of live and other performances, and, in some jurisdictions, industrial designs. Designs or industrial designs may have separate or overlapping laws applied to them in some jurisdictions. Copyright is one of the laws covered by the umbrella term intellectual property. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

What is the purpose of Copyright?
So that people don’t copy other people´s work, for example if a doctor copies the work off a college and is going to perform a surgery on you he knows what he is doing, so it is for others safety as well.

Can images have a Copyright?
Yes because if a person from a company wants to sell frogs and he copies a picture off the internet he can go to jail, whereas if a college student is doing a project on frogs and copies the picture and states the site where he took the picture from where he took it.

Are there any images that do not have a Copyright?
NO, because the copyright law is a set of exclusive rights that regulate the use of someone else’s product and cannot be changed.

Search for 2 websites where that have free use images. Write the URL and we will compile a list for class use.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/images/070830-poison-frog.jpg
http://animalworld.com/encyclo/reptiles/spiders/images/GoliathBirdEatingSpiderWHSp_AP7I.jpg

What is the easiest way to avoid problems with copyright infringements?
The easiest way to prevent the copyright problems is to put the URL whenever you use a picture taken from the internet or a book, or whenever its someone else’s work.