Copyright is an exclusive legal right given to a person who has printed, published or otherwise created something that belongs to them. It could be either physical or intellectual property, but the important fact is that it belongs to that person. The purpose of copyright is to protect the creators of this property. Because of this, copyright infringement is technically stealing. You are able to use a limited amount of another person's work (if it's credited or if it's for the purpose of reviewing). Ignorance to this is no defence and will see you fined for copyright infringement.Fair dealing is something used by journalists in order to use other peoples work in their own work. However, this work cannot be passed for your own and the usage must be fair and only a small portion of the whole work. Whilst video and to an extent text can be fair dealed, photographes are exempt from fair dealing.
