Copyright blog

I am in the how has copyright changed over the years and and the legal changes of copyright over the years. We haven't really split up what exactly each person is going to be focusing on specifically because we don't know much about copyright, so this is just our preliminary research. I am in a group with Avery and Lori. I would like to focus on the timeline of copyright, to show as evidence that copyright has changed over the years. Just in recent history The Family Entertainment and Copyright act of 2005 focused on more recent media, like "free" downloadable music online. Also the content industry was worried back in 1975 about massive copyright infringement from video recorders- that seemed to be the start of the issues dealing with copyright and what we consider modern technology. I also learned that amount of time copyright has be extended throughout the years. It started out as a mere 14 years, and now it is literally up to 75-95 years. Huge diffference! Why such a huge difference? I still have a lot of questions about copyright because I have never really researched it thoroughly which I also find interesting. We are told not to copy peoples work but I have never been taught how copyright works.... I used the following links:

http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/papers/copyright99.html

http://permissionplease.today.com/2009/08/21/2009-coptright-form-changes/

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_fair_use_Overview/chapters0/0-g.html