Copyright

 

 

A copyright is a legal concept, enforced by most governments, giving a creator of an original work exclusive rights to it. It gives the creator of the document a right to have it protected from other users stealing it. Similar to a 'patent', the copyright law ensures that no one else is allowed to use it unless otherwise permitted. copyright laws also differ from each country and there is now an international agreement on some documents and files. This means that if you want to use a document which belongs to someone else by right, then the creator has to permit the user to have access to it and copy it. This could be for a number of purposes.

 

In our case, my group need to apply for this copyright in order to be allowed to use Avicii's song 'Wake Me Up'. If we do not apply for it, then not only can we be punished by Youtube and the owner of the original music video, but we can also have our work rejected. This could lead to us having to go to court if the artist would want to sew use for plagiarism. This is the email that we sent to the record company in sight of this and their email address was info@umusic.com.