Creative Commons

Creative Commons is basically licenses to copyright something it lets you choose whether you want people to use it and if they do then they can't say its theirs and copyright it them self.  

Creativecommons.org is a website where it allows you get a license for something you have created such as a piece of music, photographs and website names. So no one can use it without your permission and so they cant try and copyright it their self's.                                                                                                           

links where we got our information:

https://www.gov.uk/copyright/overview

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

                                                                            

Music and sound in short film copyright?

• You could accidentally criticize other peoples work.
• You can copy from the library.
• You can copy for educational purposes.
• You cant directly copy the work.
• You cant rent and lend the copy to the public.
• You cant use sound that people have copyrighted without asking their permission first.

How to get permission for a still image?

• Ask the owner to be allowed to use the image.
• You can use the image under educational purposes.
• The copyright ends after 70 years and 50 years if the artist/ photographer dies.
• Its now 2015 so you'd be allowed to use photos and videos from 1945 and earlier.
• Check sources of where the image is originally from.
• You can go to prison for copyright.

Clips and images?

• Permission from the company/ person who the image belongs to.
• Royalty fees.