Be+Fair+And+Legal

“In America, ideas that you create are protected by copyright laws. If you create a book, song, painting, architectural style, or movie then nobody else can make money from that idea without your permission. There are also rules in school that prevent students from copying other people’s writing and submitting it as their own idea.”

Fair Use: The doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder (google definintion)

Public Domain: The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole (google definition)

Plagiarism: The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. (google definition)

Royalty: A sum of money paid to a patentee for the use of a patent or to an author or composer for each copy of a book sold or for each public performance of a work (google definition)

Here is an example of work cited

Works Cited Ebbing, Darrell D., and Mark S. Wrighton. //General Chemistry//. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Print. //Holy Bible: New International Version.// Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005. Print. Salo, April. "Lakeview Wikispace." Web. www.lakeviewchristianacademy.wikispaces.com.

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