Monday, 27 June 2016

Copyright and social media

Standard copyright laws apply when posting online. Permission is generally required when sharing copyrighted material created by others, but there are some situations when material can be used without permission. These include fair dealing exceptions (e.g. study, criticism or review, parody or satire), linking and embedding some types of materials, items out of copyright (i.e. public domain material), and short phrases of text.

Moral rights also apply when posting works created by others – in a nutshell, it is the right of a creator to be attributed by name, to not have his or her work attributed to another person, and the right to have the integrity of his/her work respected. This is often a point of contention for many amateur artists who find their work shared on social media without their permission and without any credit attributed to them.

A guide on copyright in social media, websites and blogs from La Trobe Uni

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