Aaaand one more reading from week 2: “Blogs and Australian Law”.

This reading addressed the legal laws and issues that can occur whilst using blogs and more web based publications. With many dot points, the article discussed ‘What is a blog’, Copyright, Trade marks, Right of Publicity, Defamation…etc.

Under the copyright dot point, there is a strong emphasis on always being aware of who the copyright owner is, whether the 70 years copyright period has expired and what exceptions will apply to you. Before this reading I didn’t know that there was an entire council dedicated to dealing with copyright and that is where you should turn if you have any questions.

The other section regarding copyright that interested me was about using short quotes, names, slogans or titles. As it turns out, these are all mostly too short to gain copyright protection. Phew!