Who Owns Your Social Media Content?

Everyone can create an original work that can be anything they want to write, draw, photograph or record. However, copyright does not cover ideas such as others’ creation needs to be complete out there in the world for us to lay a claim to it. “Copyright also does not cover new inventions (those would be covered by patents), or trade names and logos (trademarks)” (Weissman, 2020). Copyright work exists when you carry the work into reality and there’s nothing to file. You can create the work and use it with your copyright and you can sue the people who didn’t have the permission from you to use your work, or sell your copyright. You’re not the only copyright holder if other people are included in your work creation. “Social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube, are only allowed to display your content online because of licenses that you, the copyright holder, grant them. Before we delve into what this means for you, allow me to explain the concept of licenses” (Weissman, 2020). The copyright holder or licensor has to agree to give the license to the licensee to get a license for a copyright-protected work. 

This content of materials related to digital citizenship because both are the technology use and they’re looking for safety to make sure whatever things you do are safe. Copyright is when the owner controls the work that they created and the same things go to social media such as facebook. If you don’t want someone else to use your content, you have to post it on your own and to do it privately.  This will stop others from using and copy your content. This can also control facebook where no one else can see your post and your information that you don’t’ others to copy. It’s important for everyone to know what they’re signing up for before they check that little box and open a new account because each social media platform has its own, and different take on licenses. 

The educator or information professional should be careful of the technology they use so they don’t do it wrong. If they don’t want to share their information with others, they should keep everything private just so that others don’t copy their information. At the same time, they are not allowed to copy others’ information. They should be careful of using copyright pictures or music in digital projects that they make as well as the projects that their students make. The good thing is that they can buy books that they want to read and learn about so that they can understand better about what to teach to their students. They can do so many things with copyright as long as they do it properly.

Weissman, A. (2020). Who Owns Your Social Media Content? Retrieved from https://www.copyrightlaws.com/who-owns-your-social-media-content/.