Policing and preventing copyright violations on the Internet
Last night, DSM had the unfortunate experience of learning that an independent contractor we were using for content creation was allegedly pirating other writer’s work. This incident has caused me to spend some time training the DSM staff as to what they can do to both prevent copyright violations and to police intellectual property use on the Internet. I thought I would pass on some of the tips I have shared with them. Let’s start with a short and very incomplete copyright tutorial.
START OF TUTORIAL
What is a copyright? It is an intellectual property protection for certain “expressive” works, including: music, art, poetry, writing, movies, and much more. In order for the work to be copyrighted the following criteria must be met, the work must:
1. Be original
2. Result from a creative effort on behalf of the author, artist, or originator
3. Be in a physical form, or a “tangible medium of expression”
