Copyright is the legal act of giving an original piece of work exlusive rights to the owner. This means that only the owner is aloud to own or change the work. It is currently enacted by most governments.
In the example of the OTS we are producing, an original soundtrack must be produced, and any foleying must be produced by the editing team. The OTS cannot legally have any audio that has been copyrighted.
This means that: Trademark, authors rights, moral rights, trade secret and geographical indication are correctly used under any circumstance.
All of these examples are sub laws under copyright:
Copyright law covers an idea produced by the owner.
Trademark law covers any identable sign that could show the origin of a product or service.
Patent law covers the protection of inventions.
Trade secret law covers the secrecy of important information.
I believe when used in the right circumstance, copyrighting is extremely important. For example, if a film is going to be produced then it must make sure it has permission to use copyrighted sounds, or simply create their own.
However being as the project we're working on will not be advertised publicly, I believe there should be no concern to the use of copyrighted sounds, as it will not be available to the public to copy, edit or save.
However, looking on the plus side this just means for the OTS's creation, the audio team must use creative thinking in order to make a suitable soundtrack that isn't copyrighted.
