Copyright

Copyright

Copy right protects the creator or owner of an image from other people using it and claiming it as there own. This law is called the “Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988”. You do not always have to get copyright, for example if you create an image on Photoshop it’s yours and you own the copyright for that image. This means you do not have to go and apply for copy right.

 

However if the image you are making/ editing is already copyright by another person than it is not owned by you and it is owned by the person who owns copyright to it. For example in a business if you edit a image for the business you do not own the copy right to the image, the employer does.

 

There are several rules to copyright, one of them are that copyright lasts until the owner of the copyright passes away also another seventy years must be waited as well. Another rule is that only copyright holders can grant permission and license anyone else to use there work. With copyright there are a few exceptions which apply which are, fair dealing, library privileges, copying for examinations and copying for instruction.