Internet Highway Rules (10/31/2013)

I have mixed feelings about copyright rules and laws. I think that it is important to protect someone’s work, but at the same time I feel like many of the copyright laws go overboard at times. The story from this blog is one of those times, in my opinion, that copyright laws and those enforcing them went overboard. Also I think that there needs to be major reform in the area of copyright laws because technology has made sharing easier and the chance for copyright infringement even easier. Not many people know that simply giving credit the photographer for their work is not enough. While important you can still be claimed for copyright infringement unless you have received permission for the use of their work. To be safe, you should just take your own pictures or use work from the public domain or a creative domain.

Below are a few examples of images that are O.K. to use

The images in this gallery are O.K. to use because they are in/covered by the Creative Commons Act or the owner has released the photo into Public Domain.

Also here is a link to a song that is in the Public Domain.