Copyright and Fair Use

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The sole purpose of copyright is to make authors money and protect them from getting their works stolen.
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If I print, copy, and distribute material from the internet I am not violating the copyright law
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If an article on-line doesn't have the copyright symbol, then it is not considered copyrighted material
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It is legal to use a small portion of copyrighted material for educational purposes
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You are setting up a website for class and you find an cartoon image on the internet that you love and put it up on your website. This is copyright infringement.
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You love the CD cover art from your favorite band's latest album. You download a photo from the internet, and make yourself a T-shirt, and you make several more, selling them to your friends. This is copyright infringement.
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You wake up one morning with a dream fresh in your mind. You tell this dream to your friend. Two years later, you hear that your friend has published his first short story in a national periodical, and when you read it, you think it is just like your dream. This is copyright infringement.
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The basic concept of copyright is that you own and have control over anything that you create.
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Public domain means that the term of copyright has run out and the material is free to copy and use.
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You have a computer game you love to play and you think your friends would love to play it too, so you bring it over and install it on their computers. This is copyright infringement.
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You have a new computer game software and you make 1 copy for yourself just in case the original goes bad.. This is copyright infringement.
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You have just come home from a vacation and post your pictures on a peer-to-peer file sharing program, and you tell your friends so they can see and download them for themselves. This is copyright infringement.
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You find a peer-to-peer network that offers free music downloads. You have almost all of your favorite bands CDs, but this site has the one you are missing. You don't want to go to the store and buy it, so you download the songs. This is copyright infringement
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You buy a new CD but decide you don't like it and decide to resell it on eBay. This is copyright infringement.
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You need to do a project for school and use a 3 minute clip from a documentary you found online. This is copyright infringement.
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For your government class, you have to study and write about some new bill being voted on in the US Congress. You include large sections of the bill in your paper. This is copyright infringement.
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You wrote a story for your school newspaper. This is copyrighted material and you are the copyright owner.
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You are reading Treasure Island in class, but left your book at school. Then you found a copy of Treasure Island on the internet and printed out the chapter you needed. This is copyright infringement.
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Halloween is coming and you found the classic film version of the Night of the Living Dead on the internet and mixed in a new audio of a song you wrote. This is copyright infringement.
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Your class is studying Africa and there was a great PBS program on last night that you taped and brought into class to show. This is copyright infringement.
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You have a birthday party and you want to play all your favorite songs during the party. You make a CD and then make copies of the CD with all the songs and give them to your friends when they leave. This is copyright infringement.

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