Digital copyright and permissions

There is no such thing as electronic copyright, it is a term that people use to imply machine-readable form. It is not a legal or copyright term. However, copyright will still protect digital images.

Digital technology makes it easy to share. This is very important because copyright infringement may occur when images are shared with appropriate authorisation but are copied from one format to another

Many terms relating to the use of content, including digital images, such as: 'reasonable'; 'non-commercial'; and 'substantial' remain undefined. This creates more complexity.

In the UK, copyright protection is only afforded to certain classes of work: these must exist in material form as ideas are not given protection. The work must be original, which means that it must not have been copied from something that already exists.

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/guide/copyright-and-digital-images/%20-%20cp2#cp3

Sources of free images:

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/terms.htm

 



 

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