Wednesday 23 March 2011

Copyright

Copyright

"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. In most jurisdictions copyright arises upon fixation and does not need to be registered. 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."

I found this definition of copyright when researching on google, it helped me to understand the rules of what i can and cant put in my newspaper.

All the images i have used for my newspaper i have taken myself, because i have made these myself i do not copyright for my work.

Theories

In the media teenagers are usually represented in a bad way, i have challanged this by writing a story about a school of teenagers that have raised money for charity doing various activities like sponsered silences.
Although i have written about youths in a more posetive way i have also done a story about an elderly man who gets attacked by youths, this sticks to the types of stories usually printed by the media.