Copyright
Copyright is the act of preserving someone's right to the ownership and rights to a piece of work/photograph/script or illustration(just about anything). The duration of copyright is normally around 70 years after publication whereas some things have a 50 year expiry and some things will expire even sooner. Photographs tend to be along the lines of 50 years, computer generated work and unpublished work expires on the 31st of December 2039. The moral rights of the author are as follow:
- The right of the author of a work to be acknowledged as the author or creator
- The right of the author to object to false attribution
- The right not to have his or her work subjected to 'derogatory' treatment
Moral rights do not protect those in work who create something in a group during the course of employment. If you take a picture of someone's work such as taking a picture of the Mona Lisa then you will still be infringing copyright laws because you may own the rights to the photograph you took but you cant do anything with it because you don't own the rights to the original piece. however you can still apply for the permission to post the photo anywhere from the author directly.
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