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What even is copyright?
A confusing term that is important to protect yourself and
others!
Other people own property. However, they own not just
physical property but intellectual, non tangible property.
This property needs to be protected just as your house or car is
protected under laws.
That’s where copyright comes into play. It protects the copying
and redistribution of someone's intellectual property.
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Public Domain
Works can be used freely by all! Sometimes!
These works are free and open to the public, like you, to
research, copy, use and play with at your own will.
But why? These products can be used for many reasons, such
as they were never copyrighted, the owner has given
permission, or the copyright has expired which happens fifty
years after the owner passes away.
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Plagerism
All those projects and papers you write… Well the information
comes from somewhere!
Plagiarism is taking someone else's copyrighted work and
using it for your own purposes without giving the author credit.
You can do this intentionally or unintentionally!
Say you are writing a paper for biology 30 and you support your
arguments with concrete evidence found from a peer reviewed
journal. If you do not give credit to that source for the
information used you are plagiarizing that information by acting
like its your own!
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So am I NEVER allowed to use
anything again?
FALSE!
With the idea of fair dealing you can use copyrighted works
under certain circumstances.
Fair dealings allows you to use work for educational
purposes, reviewing, critiquing, etc.
But, to be sure you are actually operating under fair deal do the
check list quiz found :
http://www.2learn.ca/ydp/copyfairdealing.aspx
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What about me?
Say one day you invent an amazing experiment or research
answer in your chemistry class. How do you protect your ideas
from your fellow peers?
Well, a thing called a Patent can come in very handy for you!
Patents are a protecting force guarding your ideas from being
taken by others.
BUT! They only last a certain amount of time (20 years)
