"To start, you need to know that copyright is an “automatic right.” Copyright automatically protects your work from the moment it is fixed in a tangible form. In other words, once you create a piece of art, write a story, or write down or record a musical composition, it is protected by copyright. You don’t need to do anything else at all for your work to be protected. Your work just belongs to you after you make it.* As the owner of your work, copyright gives you the right to make and sell copies of it, distribute those copies, make new works from it, and for some types of works, publicly display and publicly perform it (among other things)".
Gormley, H. (2020, September 1). What I wish they taught me about copyright in art school. Library Of Congress. Retrieved October 19, 2022, from https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/09/what-i-wish-they-taught-me-about-copyright-in-art-school/
In general copyright protection lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years.
(n.d.). How long does copyright protection last? . (FAQ): U.S. Copyright Office. Retrieved October 20, 2022, from https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.
The U.S. Copyright Office provides basic information on copyright diveded into categories. Find the category that is applicable to the type of creative works you will produce during your academic career and learn more about your rights!
What is fair use education?
Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder for purposes such as criticism, parody, news reporting, research and scholarship, and teaching.
Fair use DOES exclude you the student from having to CITE your sources!
Plagiarism - using someone elses work or ideas without giving proper credit AKA citing your sources. There is a big difference between fair use and plagairism - you can use copyrighted materials in your papers/artwork/presentations as a student but you MUST include the proper citations!
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