Fair Use: Fair Use (in US copyright law) is the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.
Copyright: Copyright is the legal right to be the only one to reproduce, publish, and sell a book, musical recording, etc., for a certain period of time.
Public Domain: Public Domain are materials belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.
Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.
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What is copyright?
Copyright refers to the legal right of the owner of intellectual property. In simpler terms, copyright is the right to copy. This means that the original creators of products and anyone they give authorization to are the only ones with the exclusive right to reproduce the work.Sep 13, 2020
How long does the copyright on an original work last?
70 years The term of copyright for a particular work depends on several factors, including whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years.
What is the Fair Use Act?
Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.
What is plagiarism?
copying someone else's work
What types of things can be copyrighted? What cannot be copyrighted?
Works without enough “originality” (creativity) to merit copyright protection such as titles, names, short phrases and slogans, familiar symbols or designs, font design, ingredients or contents, facts, blank forms, etc. cannot be copyrighted.
What is the public domain?
The term “public domain” refers to creative materials that are not protected by intellectual property laws such as copyright, trademark, or patent laws. The public owns these works, not an individual author or artist.Dec 4, 2019
The Fair Use Act allows anyone to use copyrighted materials for educational purposes. What other uses are covered under the Fair Use Act?
Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder for purposes such as criticism, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and teaching. There are four factors to consider when determining whether your use is a fair one.
Citation: A citation is a quotation from or reference to a book, paper, or author, especially in a scholarly work.
Lyric: A lyric is expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms.
Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
Usage Rights: Usage rights is to obtain the use of copyrighted work.
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use a citation making site for resources
give credit to the person who created the work
fair use: purpose, nature, affect, amount.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the practice of taking/copying someone else’s work or ideas and using that work as your own.
Plagiarism checker: A plagiarism checker is an online tool that searches the Internet to check for duplicated content/material.
Unethical: Unethical is behavior that is improper and not morally acceptable.
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check my work to ensure I have not plagiarized others' content
Piracy: Piracy is the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.
Creative Commons License: A Creative Commons license lets you dictate how others may use your work. The Creative Commons license allows you to keep your copyright but allows others to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit and only on the conditions you specify.
Attribution: Attribution is giving credit to the person who creates the work.
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follow copyright laws
create a digital artifact to demonstrate knowledge of copyright
create a creative commons license
explain public domain
give credit to the person who created the work
creative commons
personal use only????
Cannot make money of off
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