Copyright
Whenever you use any information from someone else you need to make sure you give that person credit. This is because you are taking their ideas. If you do not do this, you are plagiarizing their work.Since the internet is so widely used there are many copyright issues. This happens because people do not cite the information they borrow. Even worse than that is when the person steals another person's entire paper from the internet. This is not a good thing since they are claiming that someone else’s thoughts are their own.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act states that “under federal copyright law, no copyrighted work may be copied, published, disseminated, displayed, performed, or played without permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with fair use or licensed agreement” (Bitter and Legacy). Teachers need to tell students about the copyright laws and also tell them that they can check to see if they copied anything. By telling them this, students will be less likely to break the law since they know they will be caught.
Whenever you use any information from someone else you need to make sure you give that person credit. This is because you are taking their ideas. If you do not do this, you are plagiarizing their work.Since the internet is so widely used there are many copyright issues. This happens because people do not cite the information they borrow. Even worse than that is when the person steals another person's entire paper from the internet. This is not a good thing since they are claiming that someone else’s thoughts are their own.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act states that “under federal copyright law, no copyrighted work may be copied, published, disseminated, displayed, performed, or played without permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with fair use or licensed agreement” (Bitter and Legacy). Teachers need to tell students about the copyright laws and also tell them that they can check to see if they copied anything. By telling them this, students will be less likely to break the law since they know they will be caught.
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