Contempt

Media Law

Assessment 2: Contempt

1. What are the competing interests that copyright law aims to "balance"?


The main intention of copyright is to encourage the progression of science and art through the protection of authors whose originally composed workings are replicated or taken recognition for. When an author creates an item of work that expresses an original description of ideas or facts or is composed in a unique way, it may be copyrighted. The specific words or arrangement of words used by the original author may not be replicated exactly by any other persons without permission. If permission is not granted and the work is copied still, remedies will be granted to the author under the law of copyright. Furthermore, the fundamental facts of the work may be used or copied but as mentioned earlier they must not be replicated exactly. This includes works that range from; Pictorial, graphic, sound recording, literary, to musical, dramatic, motion pictures, choreograph...