Copyright is
the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same. As stated at copyright definition.com.
Example 1: Taking someone else's work like, of course, text, books, art, music, and photos
Example 2: using someone else's logo(s) could be copyright
Fair use is such uses can be done without permission from the copyright from the copyright owner. If your use qualifies as a far use, then it would not be considered an illegal infringement. Another example would be taking somones logo.
Shepard Fairey pleaded guilty in February to criminal contempt of court for falsifying and destroying documents and coaching a witness while embroiled in a copyright infringement. The federal court found Fairey had both destroyed documents that would prove that he had not used the photo of Obama and Clooney, and created false ones in an attempt to back the claims he made in his complaint. According to court documents, Fairey and AP settled the civil suit in January 2011 for $1.6 million.
The public domain is generally defined as consisting of works that are either ineligible for copyright protection or with expired copyrights. They can also be copied and distributed to classes or digitized and placed on course Web pages without permission or paying royalties.
Halloween before image used with permission, Creative Commons
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