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e-Safety Information for Parents and Students

Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. Copyright does not protect ideas, only their expression. Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time, after which the work is said to enter the public domain. Uses covered under limitations and exceptions to copyright, such as fair use, do not require permission from the copyright owner. All other uses require permission. Copyright owners can license or permanently transfer or assign their exclusive rights to others.

Limitations and Exceptions limit use of copyrighted material to certain cases that do not require permission from the rightsholders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship, archiving and access by the visually impaired for example. They create a limitation, or an exception to the exclusive rights that are granted to the creator of a copyright work by law.

Books
Maps
Sheet Music
Music tracks
Articles
Scientific papers
Artistic works
dramatisations
films
software
digital media

This list is not exhaustive and if you are in doubt over the copyright status of anything, permission should be sought from the author of the work. The assumption that an item is on the internet so it must therefore be free of copyright is incorrect; images, videos, sounds, and text could all be covered by copyright.

This is a short Animation produced by Youtube about Copyright issues - YouTube Copyright School