Blog Post #3
The term copyright to me has always meant anything that is created by someone and published by that person, can not be used as another person's own words. This meaning, that people would have to cite these publications when using them in any form. Fair use, to my knowledge, is the ability to use these publications as previously stated without citing them in certain scenarios such as critiquing them. As a teacher, copyright is important when it comes to the creation of my tests and exams for my class, such that other teachers would be encouraged to make their own instructional items rather than take mine. Students would also be advised against using other classmates' work as this is plagiarism and would go against the "copyright" that is created when students turn in their own work. Academic dishonesty is a subject that feels to have been around forever, or at least as long as I have been in school. My graduating class had 10 different people kicke...