Interactive Ethics: Copyright

1. What is Copyright?
What is Copyright? Copyright protects the physical expression of ideas. As soon as an idea is given physical from, for example a picture drawn or made on Photoshop, it is protected by Copyright.

2. What are the 3 Moral Rights?Copyright has 3 moral rights, which are:
1- The Right of Attribution, the creator of a work has the right to be identified as such.
2- The Right of Integrity, the work may not be altered or changed without consent.
3- False Attribution, a work cannot be attributed to a creator falsely.

3. How might Copyright affect you and your work with Interactive Media?
It would have huge effect on me and my work because if someone takes work that was created by me and didn’t attribute me, then I could possibly lose out on profit or success that, that product would be making.

4. Do you think illegally downloading is morally right or wrong? Justify your position?

If I’m honest I think illegally downloading content is wrong, because the producer is losing out on money that the product should be making, but at the same time some of the content that is illegally downloaded is ridiculously priced and not everyone can afford to buy it, this becomes a bigger problem when people need the content, such as me needing Photoshop and not being able to afford to buy it legally, to be able to succeed.

5. What does Creative Commons do?
Creative Commons is a charitable organisation that lets copyright holders easily allow anyone to use their work in ways that the author is comfortable with.

6. Use an image from Creative Commons in your blog correctly.

Courtesy of Gamerscore Blog.

7. Give your opinion on the way that total freedom from copyright might affect our culture.
If Copyright ceased to exist then none of the major content producers would continue to produce anymore because it would be a non-profitable industry, so they would see no point in continuing to produce.