Copyright and Fair Use online

The purpose of copyright and fair use policies are for people to be allowed to use material created by another person. If the creator does not want that particular person to use his creation, then he has the right to forbid it.  With copyright and fair use policies, it gives people the ability to use this information, particularly online, to use in either their lecture or assignments, but they can not call it there own work, they have to cite the source it came from. If they do not cite the source, they are breaking the copyright and fair use requirements. Teachers in particular need to be aware of these policies because they are very important to the owner of the particular work. For example on one of the reading requirements we see that when a student uses a song in a presentation, they are not allowed to use more than 30 seconds or 10 percent of the song. Also teachers are not allowed to show bootlegged movies or home recorded movies to their students.

Creative common licenses gives everyone copy right permission to the work they have created. Their is a 3 layer licenses design which are called Legal Code, Human Readable and Machine Readable. Also their are licenses called the BY, which is Attribution and this licenses build upon your work but they have to credit you as the creator of the product. SA is another licenses and that stands for ShareALike, this licenses is used by websites like Wikipedia. ND, which stands for NoDerivs, is the licenses that gives the ability to commercial and non commercial to see your product passed along unchanged with your name on it. The last license is called NC, which stands for Non commercial. With the NC licenses people can change your product but still have to reference you as the creator of the product.

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Creative Commons Licenses looks like found at:

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