1. Teaching Copyright

2. Internet - Making infringement easy!
Scope and reach are greater

3. Reasons for copyright law:
Protects creators’ creative & fiduciary rights
“The Congress shall have the power…To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries…”

4. Teach your students that copyright is constitutional!

5. We can do this the hard way, or we can do this the easy way…

6. Know copyright rules and model them

7. Basic copyright concepts to teach:

8. Respect the work of others
Creators have rights
YOU, as a creator, have rights

9. Attribution: Cite all sources EVEN images, videos, and music
Link to original source (google images- careful!)

10. Copyright rules are different in educational settings than in the “real world.”

11. Basic copyright rules teach:
Classroom setting
Proper attribution
Portion control
$$$$$$ - Can’t profit from it
NO posting to open Internet

12. Citing Sources / Plagiarism
Bibme.org - use citation forms first - then introduce them to bibme
Plagiarism - use Google advanced search, Doc cop, other tools found on our wiki!