Workiing In The Creative Media Industry - Legal Issues
In your next post I'd like you to add to your ongoing Industry work by telling me about Copyright and Intellectual Property. Read what I've written and follow the links to flesh out your understanding of these concepts and then demonstrate that understanding in a blogpost, instructions at the end of the waffle. WHAT IS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY? Obviously, if you ran a bakery, you would want to protect your recipes, your ingredients, your equipment from other people stealing them. This is simply protecting property. Anyone trying to nick your stuff could get done for theft of property. In the media and other creative disciplines, producers want to protect their INTELLECTUAL property. You don’t want to write a great article and have someone rip off your words. You don’t want to make a great film and see clips crop up in someone else’s film. You don’t want to create a great game and have someone just rip it off and present it as their own. Those ideas, although you c
