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The question is rather broad, so here is a broad answer: The same as it protects any original work of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression (e.g., a photo, a sculpture, a novel, a song recording on a compact disc). Note that individual components of a multimedia work may be entitled to copyright protection (e.g., code or images) and the entire work may qualify for copyright protection (e.g., a motion picture or an audiovisual work).
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoIt protects works for the life of the author plus 50 years in most countries, although the US and some others have extended this to 70 years.
You would also need to properly license any protected works you intend to include in your project, such as images, sounds, and music.
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Does copyright act 1968 with digital amendments 2003 protect multimedia?
Not by name, but multimedia projects have been protected in other categories for decades. Computer code, for example, is protected as a literary work.
Will copyright protect the facts in a biography?
Copyright does not protect facts or ideas, but will protect the expression of them.
How do you protect your idea of a copyright?
Copyright does not protect ideas, only the expression of those ideas.
How will the copyright law protect the ideas?
Copyright law cannot protect ideas, only the expressionof them in writing, sound, art, etc.
How can you protect your copyright?
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What does copyright protect for websites?
Copyright protects texts, images, and the website itself.
Protection of an authors idea?
A Copyright would protect an authors idea.
Are names and ideas protected by copyright?
No, copyright does not protect names nor ideas.
Who might use copyright?
Anyone who creates an original work is using copyright to protect it.
What does copyright content mean?
Copyrights protect the "owner" of that material. To use or reproduce it without express approval of the "copyright" holder is illegal. "Copyright Laws'" protect intellectual property from unauthorized use.
Does a patent protect an author?
No; copyright would protect an author, and patent would protect an inventor.
What are two legal issues related to copyright in multimedia?
In any creative discipline, copyright topics can be divided into the materials you are using and the materials you are creating. A multimedia project can include dozens if not hundreds of copyright works, such as images, music, text, fonts, and video, each of them with one or more rightsholders. The creator of the resulting work may wish to control the copyright of the project, but may have significant difficulty based on the agreements with the rightsholders of all the component parts.
