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JOUR 625 Lecture 2: Using others' work

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Ball State University
Department
Journalism
Course
JOUR 625
Professor
Robin Blom

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There"s a lot of perceived ambiguity on whether someone else can use what another person created. A lot of people in accordance with this mention the public domain and assume they can change a small portion of someone else"s work and use it without repercussions. This is not copyright infringement and that"s because it is in the public domain. The public domain holds work that is no longer protected by copyright law, meaning it"s free to use. For most copyrights, this means the author has been dead for at least 70 years, thus lifting its protection. Once the copyright has been lifted on someone else"s work, the creation goes into the public domain for free use from anyone who wants to use it in any way they can imagine. If the author hasn"t been dead for at least 70 years, the only way it could ever be in the public domain is if the author puts it in there themselves.

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