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This 8 page paper considers the position of web page content under UK laws. The paper looks at a case supplied by the student. The first issue concerns content created by a subcontractor without a written contract and who owns the copyright. The second issue looks at the copying of photographs form a different website and the last issue examines the use of copied video files and sharing them on a peer to peer programme such as Kazaa. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEcopyinter.rtf
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as a basis for the work. There is no written contract but a problem has arisen as Dizney has used the code form the pages designed for them by Bluebook
on other web pages. Bluebook appear t believe they own the copyright to the work, and may see that Dizney are in breach of that copyright, whilst Dizney are likely
to believe that they bought the package with all the material on it, and as such they own the copyright and have the right to use it. Besides this the
work they have used has been changed, but is still recognisable. In the past ideas were associated with their expression, these may have been works of art, books, music
or even more unusual idea expression such as recipes. The ownership of the original work, and the right to reproduced, or copy it, rested with the one that created it,
unless they sold that right. This is the basic idea of a copyright. The owner of a copyright, literally owns the right to copy the work. However, as with all
legal matters, ownership is not always as simple as this. It is often assumed that the copyright of a idea will rest with the individual that had the idea. This
is not the case, to understand copyright law there is the need to comprehend the difference between the idea and the expression of the idea, as it is the expression
of the idea that is protected under copyright law. Therefore, it is quite possible for originality to be lacking in the copyrighted work, or for an original work to breach
an existing copyright it one exists. Copyright law is a difficult and complex area of law. Not only in the application of
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