#copyrite

Drake Wins Sampling Lawsuit Over ‘Nothing Was The Same’ Track

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  Yesterday, a judge ruled Drake did not violate copyright law when he sampled a segment from a 1982 jazz record.

The Nothing Was The Same track ‘Pound Cake’ begins with a spoken word sample from the late jazz artist Jimmy Smith’s 1982 track ‘Jimmy Smith Rap.’ In the original, Smith talks about the recording of his album (“We had champagne in the studio, of course, compliments of…

I attended a webinar on social media the other day. They briefly touched on copywrite. Briefly because none of them knows anything about it.

They were promoting a website called Pinterest.

Pinterest is basically scouring other peoples websites and copying pictures from their site to pin on your Pinterest site.

A lot of what you find will be from private websites and they want you to spread their pictures so everyone can enjoy them. Be sure to tell where you got it or leave a link back to the original website.

DO NOT copy from a commercial website. And do not copy company names or logos.

Each country has different copyright laws. In the US. If you want to copywrite you have to send in a copy of the picture and fill out a form. However that is changing as their copyright office is sorely over worked. They are currently switching to the Canadian system.

In Canada when you click the shutter, regardless of who’s camera you use, the copy right is yours. And vice versa, If you didn't click the shutter, the copyrite is NOT yours.

If you want to use someone else’s picture, putting a notation under the picture `Courtesy of ww.hahhf.com’ does not make it legal.

If you do this you are giving credit to the website where you stole the picture, but it may not have been their picture to start with.

Let’s say you are in the website of Norwegian Cruise Lines and you see a really nice picture that would be a good sales attraction. (Of course it is. That’s why NCL has it on their page.) They also paid good money to use it. 

They either paid a professional photographer to take the picture or they bought it from a stock house that paid a professional. Which means that NCL probably doesn’t have the copyright to it but they have paid for the use of it. 

To actually get the copyright you would have to talk to the photographer who took the original picture.

Will he lend it to you, doubtful, not when he has already sold it to NCL with the understanding that it will never be sold to anyone else.

Read the fine print (Legal Notice) at the bottom of the NCL website. This applies to virtually every website in the world.

Throughout my personal website, www.leespage.ca, I have used company logos and made links to their websites.  When I do this I always write to them and ask for permission.  It is usually granted, but sometimes, as in the case of the Canadian Legion, they told me their poppy was copywrited and I couldn’t use it.  No problem, I simply found a different picture of a poppy.  MacDonalds told me I couldn’t use their logo, not a problem, I just removed their link from my website.

A Fair(y) Use Tale