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Surely nothing on the Internet is copyrighted?

April 26, 2017internet SURELY

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Surely nothing on the Internet is copyrighted?

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It is not the case that publishing material on the Web puts it into the public domain. The content of a web page is automatically copyrighted to its creator at the moment of creation, whether or not that person makes an explicit assertion of their copyright. “10 Big Myths about copyright explained” at http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html is a valuable gloss on copyright issues, slanted towards the Internet. From: Terry Boon Bainbridge’s “Intellectual Property” (1996) tells us: The copyright in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work of known authorship, having a single author, expires at the end of the period of 70 years from the end of the calendar year during which the author dies. The diligent reader is referred to section 12(1) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which was amended by the Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995, SI 1995/3297. These regulations implemented the UK’s pa