Copyrights

=** Copyright **=

What is it?
A way to protect original, creative work

What kinds of things can be copyright protected?

 * === Music ===
 * === Writing ===
 * === Artwork ===
 * === Speeches ===
 * === Websites ===
 * === Movies ===
 * === TV shows ===
 * === Music videos ===
 * === Photographs ===

Why do we have copyright?
To protect the creativity of the people making things by giving them:
 * Credit for their work
 * Money for their work

= Plagiarism =

What is plagiarism?

 * === Copying directly from someone else’s work ===
 * === Not giving credit to the person who created the work ===

Why is it wrong?

 * === You are taking credit for someone else’s ideas and creativity ===
 * === You might be taking part of their profits ===
 * === You are stealing their ideas ===

So what?
There are many punishments for people who steal other’s work
 * === Failing an assignment or a class ===
 * === Suspension or expulsion ===
 * === Fines ===

How do you avoid plagiarism?

 * Of course, DON’T COPY DIRECTLY FROM A SOURCE
 * Give credit ANY time you get information from a source that you will
 * be using, even if it is in your own words – “cite” the source

Book
Author’s name. // Title //. Publication place: Publisher, date of publication. Example: Langan, Paul. // The Bully //. New Jersey: Townsend Press, 2002.

Encyclopedia Articles
Author’s name (if given). “Title of article.” // Title of Encyclopedia //. Date of publication, ed. Example: Simon, Seymour. “Plants.” // World Book Encyclopedia //. 1994, ed.

Websites
Author’s name (if any is given). “Title of article or document.” Information supplier (if given). Date you visited the webpage.  Example: Audubon, John. “Endangered U.S. Listed Birds.” National Wildlife Federation. 14 March 1998. [|www.nwf.org/nwf/endangered/listing/birds1.html]

Adapted from Ashby, Jennifer "Whale Watching in Lake Michigian", 4 August 2010 []