Thursday, October 15, 2009

Week 4 Copyright, Plagiarism, and Ethical Issues

During week 4 we were introduced to copy right laws and how you can obey them on the internet. With so many different resouces and peices of information it is easy to just copy and paste something without even thinking about it. However you can not do that because that is someones work that you are taking and trying to make your own. You need to make sure that you site any information that you use in a project or on a website.

I can definitely use this in the college of education. I have to write many papers and do research so this would be very beneficial to me, so that I do not accidentally break a copy right law. It is always a good skill to know how to be able to site information correctly because you will have to use it through out your entire life.

In this video kengr discusses the great YouTube debate, whether it is ok to make YouTube videos with already existing information, and whether it is ok to download shows and movies from YouTube to your account. This is related to what I learned because he discusses the laws and why it is against the law to post these videos and download shows and movies.

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