Literary, scientific and artistic works are in Norway protected through
provisions in “åndsverkloven”. The central
in this property is the authors rights of the work. Photograps, painters and musicproducers are examples of authors that the law applies. This is a right that’s applies
worldwide, and encure the authors payment possibilities. The payment the authors get, will participate that new
work will be created and brought to the community. The author will be a person, but if he wants he can assign rights to others, for instance a publishing house. The law is balanced against
communities needs of access copyrighted material. You can read about how the law takes into account to the publics here. Then I ask, when is a work copyrighted?
If a work should be copyrighted, it has to be caractirised by independed work and effort from the author. The copyright arise as the work is created, and it request no marking or registrating on the product. Allthough the copyrigth, the community are allowed some use of the materials that are produces. If the copy is ment for private use in family or by friends, you are free to use some examples. The author get a percentage as compentation for the job. Ofcourse you have to have a legal copyfoundation.
Is it possible to be sure that the copyright always is abided? In school for example, we as teatchers often give pupils wide tasks that involves gathering information from different sources. The pupils uncritical pick texts, images, music and simmilar from all kinds of media, without thinking the thought that they are "steeling" somebodys work. The adults in school has a big responsibillity bring the knowledge about copyrighting too the children. This in respect to the athors and the law. The information that we give, can make the pupils be more aware also in the sparetime. All use in social media that they are connected to, is a big area for distibution of all kinds of works. Movies, pictures and different, often is posted in medias. Maybe without thinking they are violating the author.
This video tells a bit about what kind of challenges youngers meet for example in using internett in schoolwoork.
