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Ict CyberSecurity Lesson 3: Legal and Ethical Issues

Terms in this set (14)

Copyright
The exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.
Copyright protection is for how long?
The creator's lifetime plus fifty years after his/her death.
Copyrights may be renewed...
After the owner's death, by the author's estate.
Original work
Something an author creates that is automatically copyrighted even if it does not have a "registered" copyright.
Copyright Infringement
An ILLEGAL use of copyrighted material like downloading songs & movies without paying for them. This includes using pictures or content downloaded from the internet without permission.
Fair Use
The ability to use a copyrighted work's words, images, or ideas in a small, non-commercial way, or in a parody without paying for it. This ALSO allows limited copying & use of material for education, criticism, news reporting, and research.
Public Domain
Works that are not copyrighted for any number of reasons: Works that are not copyrightable, works assigned to public domain their their creators, works whose copyright has expired.
Ethical Responsibility regarding copyrighted material includes:
Using only a small part & citing the source, creating a parody, Using a few paragraphs from a source in a classroom.
School Project Rules include:
No more than 5 pics from a photographer, up to 10% or 30 seconds of a song, 10% or 3 minutes of a video, 250 words or less of a poem, one image per book or article.
Plagiarism
Using someone else's work and passing it off as your own.
Citations
Formal ways of giving credit to people for their work.
The difference between research and plagiarism
One gives credit to the creator and one does not.
MLA Style
Modern Language Association, a format for citing your resources and writing a paper for language arts or literature.
APA Style
American Psychological Association, a format often used in education and social sciences
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