Copyright Implications
IT236 Intro to Web Design I This was an interesting paper for me to write as I had never thought of copyright and websites or affecting websites. Now that I have been taking and studying this class, I now realize the importance of copyright and how it affects the creation of a website, especially with all the hard work involved. Creating a website not only involves the creation, idea but all the hard work invested in it. This is were it is important to protect your website by implementing one of the two methods of protection which happens to be copyright. This is the primary source for legal protection, which is the most popular form of protection in use today. It is the easiest and most popular form of protecting ones website as it involves three items that have to be considered like ownership, notice and registration. You can’t use the work or image of someone else to create your own which is the same, as you cannot use another’s copyrighted work. This is as the copyright owner has rights not only for his work but also on any derivative works, which is created, based on the original work. The implications of copyright law is that it tis the legal use of the owner of a website that his website images aren’t copied or used by anyone else. Some components of copyright law include financial incentive, fair use of the website, the public domain, advances in technology and of course register copyright. It is very important that someone does copyright their website especially after all the had work invested on creating one which starts from the idea to the images to the navigation system as a few examples provided. It is very important a website for someone as it is normally an originally website content that was developed on the creators thought or idea of what they wanted. The copyright infringe mentation and what can be done if