DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
Know your rights as a creator!
Have no fear! The Copyright Legal System is here!
A law that protects your control over the creative work you make so that people must get your permission before they copy, share, or perform your work.
Protect yourself with the Creative Commons!
What counts as Creative Work?
Books, poems, papers, articles, blogs, reviews, etc.), photos, videos, music, websites, online profiles, and artworks.
How does Copyrighting work?
- When you have an idea and record it, its instantly copyrighted. It does not matter if a work is hard copy or digital form it is still copyrighted.
- All recorded work is automatically copyrighted.
- Ideas, common knowledge and facts, U.S. government documents, works in the public domain, and spontaneous acts of expression aren’t copyrighted.
Piracy, Plagiarism, Public Domain and Fair Use
PIRACY - Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to
keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying.
PLAGIARISM - Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone
else’s work and saying you created it.
PUBLIC DOMAIN - Creative work that’s not copyrighted and therefore free for you to use
however you want
FAIR USE - The ability to use a small amount of copyrighted work without
permission, but only in certain ways and in specific situations