IP and Privacy: copyright and moral rights

Ip and privacy blog entry

About copyright

The copy right law gives the owner the rights to the creation of a song film game character etc., and stops others from using it without permission. Once you have created something, for example the lyrics for a song of a video game character then you will automatically have the copyright rights to it. You will able to claim copyright officially as long as you are able to provide physical evidence that you were the first person to come up with it.

Copyright your three moral rights

The first, moral right of the copy right law is that the creator of a cartoon or videogame character is able to claim copyright of that character or concept.  For example my character, Keiyou, whom i am using in my game for android/ iphone , i will own the rights to automatically as it is my creation. if i am able to give physical evidence for coming uo with that character first  then  i will be able to  claim the actual rights to it so then no one will be able to steal my idea as that would infringe on my rights for it.

The second moral right of the copyright law is that a character or concept cannot be edited or changed without consent of the owner. For example if someone took my character and then gave him huge feet or tried to change the colour of it without  asking me if i was okay with the design changes then it would be another infringement of my copyrights that i have.

The third moral right is misdistribution meaning that you can’t draw something really bad or wrong and then claimed the owner did it. For example if Adam were render in maya my character but really badly or gave him, shall we say, inappropriate features  then claimed that that it was my fault and i got into trouble for it (in college or for other reasons) it would be another infringement of my copyright rights.

How copyright affect you and your work with interactive media

Copyright can affect my work within the interactive media course in number of different ways. firstly way it can affect my work is when writing essays, which seem to creep up everywhere within a level 3 course, i would have to reference (Harvard reference is one that’s needed allot everything that i use as an example or whatever i am writing about. Another way copyright can affect my work is when making games ir websites. These two things are the ones that are most affected by copyright as you have to make original material, especially for games as games can be re-skinned and copied in anyway which can be unfair on the owners of the original versions of the game.