Copyright Violations
1. Teachers allow student to do research of an assignment: Teachers allow the students to conduct research. Students are allowed to copy picture and place in a computer assignment or research paper. If student are not fully aware of copyright laws it is easy to violate. They sometimes snick and visit websites to get lyrics from their favorite singers that may contain uncensored words.
2. Plagiarism: It is important for teachers to teacher students the Fair Use policy guidelines. Copyright materials are in the form of words, ideas, images, tunes, and etc need permission from the creator. Doing research on topics is easy to borrow or copy information from another person’s creation and take ownership. Through the Fair Use policy teachers and students are allow a certain guidelines and conditions of retrievable materials.
3. Coping Media: In a classroom setting a teacher loves her neighboring teacher’s CD of instructional materials such as singing songs of the days of week or months of the year, or maybe a CD for Energizers for restless students. The neighboring teacher purchased the CD years ago and no longer can be found. Asking for a copy of the CD is a violation of copyright, but, it is ok to share the CD.
My copyright “must know” is listed as followed. It is very important to inform the students of the copyright laws because it can easily be violated. Once the students are aware of these issues it should be revisited each time the students have opportunity to violate them.
