The definition of copyright is that it is a legal right created by the law of a country that gives the original author of work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time. The seminar we were given on copyright really cleared up any ideas or false information I had been given about the subject. One of the most interesting things I learnt about the way Copyright works in the UK is that it is automatic, and you don't actually have to do anything to protect your work except produce it essentially. Despite this, it can be hard to prove that a piece of work does actually belong to you so it is important to make sure that you do everything you can to protect it. A strange thing I learnt here is that as an artist you can mail every piece of work you do to yourself or a solicitor, the only problem with this is that it is expensive especially if the artwork itself was big. Furthermore, it would require a lot of work depending on the amount of work you produce as an artist.
When it says in the definition of copyright that it is usually for a set amount of time it means that 70 years after a piece of music for example has been released, it becomes free to own and distribute as you want as the work is no longer copyrighted. If you wanted to use a piece of copyrighted music within a piece of work for example, you would have to get permission from the organisation that distributes it and the original author of the work. To use the piece of music you would have to be given the go ahead by both parties, otherwise you would be breaching copyright. These kind of strict rules on keeping work protected is quite reassuring. I found this seminar quite informative and now feel much more confident that I understand copyright.
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