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Copyright is essential to a person work/artwork, like food is important for us to live.  Its one of the fundamentals that has to be available when the work comes out, if there is no copyright on the work, then it can get lost and someone’s else can take it, and benefit from it.

Copyright is not there to just protect the person/artist work for someone else’s not to steal it and put his or her name on it, it’s a protection for someone’s creativity, it secure the work once its out for the public or even done for that matter.

“Importantly, copyright protects the way an idea is expressed. It does not protect ideas. Nor does it protect concepts, styles, techniques or information. For example, if you write an outline of your idea for a TV show, the written text will be protected by copyright as a literary work and, generally, someone wanting to reproduce the text would need your permission. However, someone else could write their own script, using your ideas, without necessarily infringing your copyright. Copyright would only be an issue if someone copied or paraphrased an important or distinctive part of your written work. (SAE creative institute, 2015).”

It’s essential that owners of the work and artists of the creative work they did, to claim or secure they’re right as the owners of this piece of work whatever it is, for instance it ranges from different types of work, such as audio recordings, video recordings, photographs, or even text written. For instance a group of film individuals are shooting a documentary with each other for an event, and a public figure shows up accidently in their shot multiple times, they don’t have the permeation to show that shot that the public figure appeared in, unless they took his or her permission, and if they show it with out the consent of that person they can get sued, and anyone for that matter, it also could be a famous song coming from the radio, and interview in the shot picked it. 

“Copyright dose not protect “concepts, styles, techniques or information” (SAE creative institute, 2015).

I have done film production in SAE, and on my creative project I did a music video with two of my friends, my friends helped me in the project in different ways, but it is me who was operating the camera and took the shoots and did the editing with the directing and everything. I have shared the music video with countless people including my family and friends and my two friends who helped me. I was disappointed with one of my friends who I gave the music video (because he was in it and he was singing in the music video), because he started to tell people that he did the editing and took the shots, when in fact he only took few shots that was not used in the final rendering of the music video. 

Still the moral rights and the ownership of the music video exist with me (the person who did the music video). In conclusion, almost all things are copyright from the moment they are produced. It dose not need to have the “copyright” text or the symbol “C” on it to be copyright.

 “You can use C in a circle © instead of "Copyright" but "(C)" has never been given legal force. The phrase "All Rights Reserved" used to be required in some nations but is now not legally needed most places. In some countries it may help preserve some of the "moral rights." (Brad Templeton, 1994)

references: Creative Institute, S. (2015, April 15). Week 3: Copyright & Contracts - Self-Directed Practitioners. Retrieved February 13, 2016, from https://medium.com/self-directed-practitioners/week-11-copyright-contracts-de8b049cd8f4#.sy0sas2v6

Templeton, B. (1994). 10 Big Myths about copyright explained. Retrieved February 15, 2016, from http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

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