Copyright Definitions

1. Copyright – It’s the law in the United States that protects works of art for certain set of time. It gives the owner exclusive permission to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same.

2. Public Domain – When copyright expires and is free for the public to use freely.

3. Fair Use in Education – The right to use portions of copyrighted materials without permission for purposes of education, commentary, or parody.

4. Creative Commons – American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

5. Attribution – Acknowledgment as credit to the copyright holder or author of a work.

Disney Copyright Video

This video did not violate copyright law and it falls within the fair use law. The current law is up to 3 minutes is allowed to be used as long as the owner is credited and nothing is changed about the original work. This video used multiple clips from multiple movies which were clips of certain characters saying different words to complete a sentence explaining copyright law. In total if each movie had 3 minutes taken from each one then the video would’ve been around 80 minutes long while it was only 10 minutes long, the time limit was not even close to being reach so I strongly believe this falls within fair use. In the credits there were all the movies that they used the clips from and according to current copyright law that falls within the fair use law.

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