Within any industry everyone has to be aware of copyright and the rights that come with it. Copyright gives the owner of that piece of work the right to control the way that their material can be used. It will cover copying, adapting, distributing, communicating to the public via transmission, public performance, renting and lending.
Anything in which you create that is an original artifact (drastically different from any other product) will be covered by copyright. The problem is however, copyright laws are different in each country so it can become quite confusing to know your rights. Something which has started to appear on a lot of pieces of work, especially on YouTube is 'Creative Commons'. Creative Commons is a nonprofit, legal framework, by attaching it to your piece of work you are agreeing for it to be shared, remixed and reused all legally. With the use of this it also transcends over international boundaries so there would be no more confusion over copyright laws of a particular piece of work.
In any case if you are wanting to use someone's work in some shape or form the best thing to do is to get in contact and ask. Throughout the film and animation modules, to make it easier for myself I have used royalty free music which don't have these copyright laws. There are many websites out there which have thousands of tracks free to download and use within your work.
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