Copyright

Copyright is a law that protects your work once it becomes real. Even if it is a book, blog, movie or a painting, you are the owner. You can do whatever you like with it. This includes selling it, renting it, making multiple copies and sharing them out to whoever you like. If anyone wants you use it, you can charge them a fee or give to them for free. You can also ask to be acknowledged as the creator by whoever it is that is using your work. 

It is illegal for anyone to do any of the options listed above without your permission to the work you have created.  

People interact with copyright everyday and they don't even realise. Listening to music, watching YouTube videos and reading something online are all copyrighted and you are interacting with it in one way or another. 

It is very important for people to seek permission to use copyrighted work if you want to use it. Normally permission would be granted through the owner of the rights. Once you have the rights to use the material, you would still need to acknowledge the creator within your work some way. 

There are some exceptions to seeking copyright permission. These exceptions include parody, news reports, and for education purposes. 

The main way of getting permission to use someone's work is to ask them for it. This can be done in many ways but the best would be to email or phone them. You will need to discuss why you are using their work and on what terms. Sometimes you may discuss how you are going to acknowledge the creator through your work. The owner may want to negotiate payment to use the copyrighted material. 

Things that are not protected by copyright are titles, names, short phrases and slogans, ideas and facts.