Digital Citizenship:
Copyrights and Wrongs
Copyrights and Wrongs
Students explore the legal and ethical dimensions of respecting creative work.
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Key Vocabulary:
Fair Use:
- The ability to use a small amount of someone’s creative work without permission, but only in certain ways
- A use in connection with a business, usually for profit
- A law that protects a creator’s ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get the creator’s permission before they copy, share, or perform that work
- A kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone’s creative work – as long as they give the creator credit for it
- Creative work that’s not protected by copyright and is therefore free for you to use however one wants