Copyright and Create Commons

During Jason Hardin’s lecture I learend many important details about Copyright laws in the United States. What I want to talk about in this entry is about Fair Use. Fair Use allows people to take certain parts of intelectual property and use it in a good way. By good I mean that this information is not to gain profit, it is not extensive, and mainy it is educational. In order to apply a Fair Use, four factors must be considered: 1. The Purpose of the reproduction, which can be education, 2. The Nature of the reproduced work, which involves information about the property you are copying from, 3. The Amount of the reproduction, which means that you cannot copy an entire book and say it is Fair Use, if you copy a small portion of a book as a quote, then it is considered as Fair Use, and 4. The Effect on the market for the work, if you are using Fair Use, you should not be making profit for that piece of information. It is important to mention that information that comes from the government is easier to copy because they provide this information to inform people and not to make a profit.
I think that Fair Use is good for society but we must be sure that we are doing it correctly. Also, I think that Fair Use is necesary because individuals need information all the time, and cannot contact every single person form which they use information.
As a conclusion, we must be very aware of the things we do in terms of Copyright because it is someting very serious that if we do not follow the rules we can get in trouble with the law.


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