Dodging Copyrights

The internet has brought our society an abundance of information. Question is, where does all these information come from? Sure, there are people who publish their original materials online, but there are also people who cheat their way through originality; they steal. Throughout the years, many cases have been brought to court for appeal and have created a bunch complicated matters for the society. All these would bring us to our next issue, copyrights.

Literally the 'copyright logo'

In Pinchon's (2011) article, she discusses about the copyright issues and mentions that the publishers are frustrated with their inability to keep their materials under control. Additionally, the commentators are also doing their best to carefully source materials in order to avoid complications with copyrights and infringements. Incidents where copyrights are at stake usually end up with the author suing the culprit, for instance, specialized copyright litigation company Righthaven once sued medjacksport.com user, Wayne Hoehn for posting an article for his prompt discussion (Pinchon 2011).

Fair usage of materials

This leads us to the principles on ethical publishing where the concerns on etiquette, fraudulent publications, plagiarism, duplicated publications and authorship is crucial (King n.d). As a writer, one must be aware of the mentioned principles to avoid conflict with copyrights. Regardless rather its online or on paper, sourcing correctly and crediting the author is very important. In Judith's site where she lists a few myths on online copyrights, there are a handful of complicated issues that she gave clarification to. One of the myths that involve the ownership of images states that the consent of the owner should be given first before publication. The site furthers explain the different online publishing issues encountered by us daily. For example, a person can only quote a sentence given that it's not tampered with this is because a tampered sentence would change the authors original meaning (Judith 2007).

While issues like these are easily made, we must all be cautious and be fair to the authors as they have put in hard work into their findings, give the credits to them. No one likes to be taken of their rightful materials 




Reference
Pichon, F 2011, 'Copyrighted material: fair and unfair use', Editors Weblog, viewed 12 November 2011, <http://www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2011/06/copyrighted_material_fair_and_unfair_use.php>.http://www.madjacksports.com/

King, CR n.d, 'Ethical Issues in Writing and Publishing', Oncology Nursing Society, viewed 12 November 2011, <http://www.ons.org/Publications/CJON/AuthorInfo/WritingSupp/Ethics/>.

Judith 2007, '7 Online Copyright Myths', theistudio.com, viewed 12 November 2011, <http://www.theistudio.com/muse/133/7-online-copyright-myths>.