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Mini Assignment:
"Copyright Free"
After learning about copyright in this guided lesson, find one image on unsplash.com that you enjoy and submit it on Google Classroom under "Copyright Free" 10 pts
Copyright is a well-known type of intellectual property (IP) protection represented by the © symbol. Watch any film and the copyright infringement warning will appear, threatening jail time and fines. Copyright extends beyond video to songs, pictures, books, blogs, podcasts, art, designs and even software. For those who are both consumers and business owners, it’s important to know how to avoid copyright infringement.
IMPORTANT: It’s unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law to copy a work of art (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as your own.
Things you should know...
You get copyright by default!
When you design anything artistically you don't have to go through a process to add copyright. Remember on the flip side if you are looking at someone else's art you can't copy exactly what they did or use their design without permission.
Your designs are protected, your style is not
You are free to copy elements of an artists approach such as colors, line variation, materials, and overall style.
When reusing images, you can’t trick copyright
Blurring, pixelating, distorting or drawing on top of someone else's photograph or illustration is a copyright infringement. You can use images that are available under a suitable Creative Commons license, or you ask the copyright holder for permission.
How much of the artwork needs to be original?
According to internet lore, if you change 30% of a copyrighted work, it is no longer infringement and you can use it however you want. This, as a rule, is false. The truth of the matter is much more complicated.
Example:
They only used his number!