You automatically obtain a copyright over any original creative works you produce such as stories, poems, drawings or paintings. As the copyright holder, you can copy and distribute your work, as well as publicly display or perform it. Others cannot copy, distribute, publicly display or perform your work without your permission. Fair use allows use of copyrighted materials for non-profit educational purposes like teaching and learning. When preparing presentations, you should read source materials and write in your own words rather than copying text, though you can copy titles and dates. You must cite any sources used at the end to avoid plagiarism. Some websites provide free content that can be downloaded and used with proper attribution.

1. Dear Students!
You should know that if you write a story or a poem,
draw/paint a picture you automatically have the copyright to it. As a
holder of copyrights you can:
Copy your work and distribute the copies
Introduce and show your work publicly
If you are not the author you cannot:
Copy someone’s work
Distribute someone’s work
Introduce publicly someone’s work
Show someone’s work publicly
You must know that there is something like Fair Use. It means you
can use copyrighted material in a reasonable way, for example for
non-profit educational purposes, to teach/learn something.
When you prepare a presentation don’t “copy and paste”, you should
read and write your own text based on the knowledge you gained. You
can copy the dates, titles. If you copy a text or download a photo
remember, you are not its author! At the end of your presentation
you should place the sources you used, for example the www pages
where you found texts and photos.
There are the www pages with free downloads and you can use their
content to download and use in your presentations.
Learn how to be an author!
Avoid “copy and paste” it is a kind of theft!