Blog #3: Copyright
Blog #3: What is Copyright and Fair Use? Copyright ties into protection of a person's property of a song, logo, etc. You can also correlate it to as a person's right to own their original works without it being claimed by another. Fair use is placed as guidelines to the proper way to market and own your original work as well as being properly cited if someone does use your work. Sadly in my time at school, I was never taught the proper way to cite and give credit to the proper owner of that content. I was even clueless on what the term plagiarism even meant. Therefore, I had to learn the hard way as a mere 7th grader. As a teacher I would teach the purpose of copyright and what that may look like on a yearly basis. As children progress further up in grade levels, the teachings of copyright and fair use should be retaught in every grade until college. Depending on that grade level can determine the complexity of how to properly cite the owner of the content is essay format, ...