copyright

How secure is your intellectual property?

Further to last week’s post about online images and copyright, I posted a link on our Facebook page to an article from Crikey’s Daily Review about imminent likely changes to Australia’s copyright laws.

Anyone who has created, or intends to create, content – writing (books, blogs, articles), photography, music, etc. – should be aware of these changes as they could well affect the control you have over what is, after all, your intellectual property.

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Add pictures to your writing … without breaking the law

Out there in internet land, there is a widely held belief that images found using Google’s image search function are ‘public domain’ and free to use. This is wrong, and thinking otherwise could be costly.

Finding a photo or diagram on Google does not mean that you can freely use that image in a Word document or Powerpoint slide, on a webpage or on your blog, nor anywhere else. The same goes for any other image, piece of writing or piece of music, for that matter. 

You wouldn’t steal a shirt from a clothing store just because you can pick it up and try it on. Re-using anything you find on the web just because you can copy and paste it is no different. At the very least you should be aware of your right to copy that content before you do.

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