Copyright Basics
This type of intellectual property protects an author's original work.
What is copyright?
This allows copyrighted material to be used without permission under certain circumstances.
What is fair use?
Often shortened to CC, this is an alternative license to regular copyright.
What is Creative Commons?
Using someone's work without giving credit and passing it off as your own is called this.
What is plagiarism?
These give people credit for their work and tell readers where information came from.
What are citations?
This is a violation of the exclusive rights belonging to a copyright holder.
What is copyright infringement?
Teaching, research, criticism, comments, and news reporting are examples of this.
What are fair-use purposes?
Under Creative Commons, these people set rules or guidelines for how their work can be used.
Who are the authors or creators?
Copying a friend's homework and turning it in as your own is an example of this.
What is plagiarism?
These are the two major types of citations listed in the notes
What are in-text and end-of-text citations?
Works found here are not restricted by copyright and can be used without permission.
What is the public domain?
This fair-use factor considers how much of the copyrighted work is being used
What is Amount Used?
The Creative Commons condition BY means this.
What is Attribution?
A student copies information from a website into a paper but does not identify the source. What did the student do?
They plagiarized the online content.
These are the two major citation styles listed in the notes.
What are MLA and APA?
Original work receives copyright protection when it is created in this form.
What is fixed form?
Name the four factors used to determine fair use.
What are Amount Used, Purpose, Nature of Original, and Effect?
Match these Creative Commons abbreviations with their meanings: BY, SA, NC, ND
A student reposts another person's image without giving credit. According to the notes, this is an example of what?
What is plagiarism?
Direct quotes, summarized ideas, data, images, and graphs found in another source generally need this.
What is a citation?
For copyrights dated after January 1, 1978, protection generally lasts for the creator's lifetime plus this many years.
What is 70 years?
True or False: Fair-use laws are exactly the same in every country.
False. Each country has its own fair-use laws.
This Creative Commons condition means the work cannot be changed to create a new or modified version.
What is ND, or No Derivative Works?
Name three examples of plagiarism from the notes
Any three:
This type of information does not need a citation.
What is common knowledge?