Blogging and Intellectual Property
What is Intellectual Property?
The World International Property Organization defines Intellectual property as: “creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce” They go on to divide Intellectual Property into two categories: Industrial property and Copyright. Intellectual Property only relates to blogging in the latter and will thus be our main focus. According to the WIPO, copyright includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs. Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs."
The following links provide information on intellectual property for the everyday blogger. It is important for all members of the blogging community to know the legalities of blog posting.
This section will provide an explanation of Canadian Copyright Laws and how they pertain to blogging.
This section supplies an explanation of what constitutes as plagiarism and how this affects the blogging community.
This section will give insight into the Terms of Service agreements of Blogger, LiveJournal, and Youtube.
This section will describe the ins-and-outs of posting visual media on Facebook, Youtube, and DeviantART.
This section will supply quick answers to questions that may trouble the average blogger.
When blogging, you will be publishing your material for all the world to access, and borrowing other people's work. Make sure you know your Rights and Responsibilities.
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