1. Copyright
Legal and Ethical Issues
Lasharn Guillory-King
AET/531
Dr. Nortz
09/23/2013

2. What is Copyright?
 Copyright laws are legally protected by
the United States legal system. United
States Law under Title 17 USC section 512
provides protection for owner to control
the rights to published material such as
“reproduction, distribution, performance,
display, and transmission of a copyright
work.”

3. 1976 Copyright Act
 Copyright laws provides
protection to both
published and
unpublished works.
 The owner has rights
under this law to
reproduce
copies, distribute
copies, sale copies, and
market
property, advertise
ownership, and illustrate
copyright on computer
software, and graphs.
 The authors has a right
to publically perform
works by using digital
audio transmission.
 It is illegal for anyone to
use or violate the
owners works without
documented
authorization.
 Copyrights laws protect
but with limitation of
owners rights in sections
107-122.

4. Compulsory License
 Limitation Fair Use
 Copyrights works are
permitted with
special royalties with
Statutory conditions.
 The author
immediately has
ownership under
copyright laws.
 What is not
protected?
 Choreographic
works that have not
been recorded or
noted intangible
form.
 Others works are
short phrases,
slogans, and ideas.

5. Intellectual Property
 There are three
ways to protect
Intellectual
Property.
 Patents
 Trademarks
 Copyrights
 Copyrights protect
literacy, authors and
music and artistic works.
 Trademarks such as any
symbol that represent a
product or symbol.
 Patents guard any
inventions, machines
that are useable and
gives owner a twenty
year Monopoly on
selling using or importing
in the United States.

6. “Fair Use”
 Works determined
by using “fair use”
in “public domain”
are determined by
legal standards,
rules, and polices
that someone has
violated copyright
laws.
 Fair Use determines if
author has followed
the legal charts and
guidelines to claim
“fair use”.
 If works was
published in the
United States from
1923-1963 then the
works in probably in
the public domain.

7. Ethical Issues
 Copyright infringement
is a crime and is
punishable by fines,
prison, and school
expulsion.
 Plagiarism is a
unethical use of
information.
 Copying someone
works, ideas without
recognizing or citing
authors is an act of
plagiarism.
 Plagiarism is like stealing
someone’s work.
 Universities are very
serious about copyright
infringements.
 Policies has been
developed to stop
plagiarism.
 Plagiarism checker is use
to stop the use of using
others ideas and taken
credit for author’s work.

8. Companies/Organizations
 Companies monitor
the internet search
engines to prevent
copyright
infringements.
 Companies police
websites to use
search bars to check
for copyright articles.
 Internet Marketing
has become very
popular in the 21st
Century.
 Using other
companies slogan
are ideas in
considered to be
copyright
infringements.

9. Summary
 Copyright laws are very
serious and is
considered to be a
criminal act.
 The United States has
developed policies
that protects authors
literacy, music, audio,
slogans, videos, movies
and etc.
 Ethical issues is an
deliberate attempt
to copy or use
someone’s work, it is
a malicious act and
taken very serious in
universities.
 Universities has
develop policies
against plagiarism
that protects authors
work.

10. References
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
http://pwebs.net/i/copyright-infringement/
http://www.everymanbusiness.com/business-
legal/intellectual-property/