Week 8 Social Network for 65+ People

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How to use Facebook when your 65 and over?

Before explaining how to use Facebook social network site, I briefly explain what social networking is in general and what Facebook is in general. 

This will help the reader know of the background of social network and Facebook .The step by step guide is very clear for an elderly person to understand the terms being used and how to use the social networking site. 

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Bloggers Stay Alert From Copyrights

Bloggers Stay Alert From Copyrights!

Bloggers should be pay great attention to copyright and blogging rules in order to delivery an interesting blog that audience will enjoy reading. 

In regards to the type of blog you write or your blog audience size, there are always legal issues bloggers need to consider, understand and follow. The rules and legal issues are in addition to the blogging rules that every blogger should follow if they want to get into blogging community and have a chance for their blogs to be popular and keep on growing. 

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If your blog is public and you don't want to get into legal trouble, then you need to keep reading and learn about the legal issues for bloggers listed below. Ignorance isn't a viable defense in a court of law. The responsibility is on the blogger to learn and follow laws related to online publishing.

Therefore, follow the blogging rules and issues relates to blogging and always check with an attorney if you're not sure if it's legal to publish specific content or not (This relates to any size of blog you are writing on "High profile businesses or individuals"). When in doubt, don't publish it. 

You cannot publish untrue information about anyone or anything that could negatively affect that person or thing's reputation on your public blog. It doesn't matter if you get no traffic to your blog. If you publish something false about a person or entity that could damage their reputation, you've committed libel and could be in big trouble.

Copyright Legal Issues

Copyright laws protect the original creator of a work, such as written text, an image, a video, or an audio clip, from having that work stolen or misused. For example, you can't republish another person's blog post or article on your blog and claim it as your own. That's plagiarism and a copyright violation. Furthermore, you can't use an image on your blog unless you created it, have permission to use it from the creator, or the image has been copyrighted by the owner with a license that allows you to use it.

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If your blog is related to a large size company and contains copyright issues, the company will not be pleased but happy to sue you for copyright infringement.

Company Trademark Legal

Companies communications typically use the copyright registration symbol © or the Service Mark or Trademark symbol following the trademarked name or logo the first time of that name or logo is mentioned.When other companies refer to competitors or other brands in their business communications, they are expected to include the appropriate copyright symbol.

If you use a trademarked brand name or logo in anyway to mislead visitors to your blog into thinking you're affiliated with the trademark owner or represent the owner in any way, you will get in trouble. Even if you use a trademark symbol, you'll get in trouble. That's because you can't mislead people into thinking you have a relationship with a trademark owner that could affect commerce in any way when in reality you don't have such a relationship.

Privacy

Privacy and internet have a solid relationship between them. In the most basic terms, you cannot capture private information about visitors to your blog and share or sell that information to a third party without permission from each person. 

If you do collect data about visitors in any way, you need to disclose it. Most bloggers provide a Privacy Policy on their blogs to explain how data is used.

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Own it or Get deleted

The main legislation dealing with copyright in the United Kingdom is the Copyright, Design and Patents Act, 1988

 
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Copyright

Copyright is one of the main types of intellectual property others include designs, patents and trademarks. 

Intellectual property allows a person to own things they create in the same way as something physical can be owned. It is the right to prevent others copying or reproducing someone's work.

When Does Copyrights Arise ?

Copyright arises automatically when a work that qualifies for protection is produced. The work must be original in that it needs to originate with the author who will have used some judgment or skill to create the work - simply copying a work does not make it original.   There is no need in the UK to register copyright.  When an idea is committed to paper or another fixed form, it can be protected by copyright.  It is the expression of the idea that is protected and not the idea itself.  People cannot be stopped from borrowing an idea or producing something similar but can be stopped from copying. 

What Does Copyrights Protect?

The main categories of works currently protected in the UK include:

·         original literary works such as novels or poems, tables or lists and computer programmes

·         original dramatic works such as dance or mime

·         original musical works, ie the musical notes themselves

·         original artistic works such as graphic works (paintings, drawings etc), photographs and sculptures

·         sound recordings

·         films

·         broadcasts

·         typographical arrangements (ie the layout or actual appearance) of published editions

Who Own Copyright?

As a general rule, the owner of the copyright is the person who created it, i.e. the author.  An author could be the writer, the composer, the artist, the producer or the publisher or another creator depending on the type of work. 

Copyright Infringement

It is an infringement of copyright to do any of the following acts in relation to a substantial part of a work protected by copyright without the consent or authorisation of the copyright owner:

·         copy it

·         issue copies of it to the public

·         rent or lend it to the public

·         perform or show it in public

·         communicate it to the public

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As mentioned above, for infringement to take place it must involve a substantial part of the work. Whether or not the part to be reproduced is substantial is subjective and the quality, importance or significance of the extract are equally as important (some may say more so) as the quantity of words or lines - using just four lines of a poem or even a four word extract have been found to be substantial.  The test is subjective. It is often said that if something is worth copying, it is worth protecting.