Copyright

I was unable to be in this class as well due to my attendance at the ACDA conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but in looking through the PowerPoint, here are the main discussion points:

• Intellectual Property:
• Copyrights
• Patents
• Trademarks
• Trade Secrets
• Copyright lasts for 70 years after the composers death
• Copyrights grants the author rights to reproduce the work, create derivative works, sell and publish the work.
• Public Domain: material available for unrestricted use
• Fair Use allows limited use of the material
• A Creative Commons License means the author allows certain additional rights to the consumer