Legal and Ethical Issues: Plagiarism & Copyrights for Students & Teachers By Karen Escobedo and Charnika Braxton

Plagiarism: it is not ethical and it is not honest work If caught plagiarizing, students will receive zero and fail the course and suspension, high-school teachers will fail the student or give detention/ referrals university: code of conduct: fail student and fail the course, kicked out of the school. harder to get into another institutions DEFINITION: “Plagiarism is the practice of someone else’s work or ideas and passing them taking off as one’s own.” —New Oxford American Dictionary *this makes a perfect example of how not to plagiarize*

With the rise of digital media tools for learning and sharing, it is more important than ever for educators to understand fair use of plagiarizing and copyright. APA Citation

Copyrights : can give you legal issues. If found guilty of copyright infringement, you may face a penalty of five years imprisonment and up to $250,000 in damages. google is easily accessed, students are lazy and used, the first thing they searched. teachers all use the same notes, tests, practices, any other education resources every year. (websites) (quizlet) DEFINITION: “you have the right to exclude all others from copying your work or from making works derived from your work. The other side of the coin, of course, is that you do not have the right to copy another person's work without permission, unless the work is in the public domain.” This is known as the Copyrights Act, in which is embedded into the US Constitution. This Act “ensures that we all do the right thing: respect the effort, as well as the intellectual property, of others.” examples: music, screenplay, and images

“Fair use, a long-standing doctrine that was specifically written into Sec. 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allows the use of copyrighted material without permission or payment when the benefit to society outweighs the cost to the copyright owner.” Educators use copyrighted materials from mass media and popular culture in building students' critical thinking and communication skills. Educators can, under some circumstances: 1. Make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works, and use them and keep them for educational use. 2. Create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded. 3. Share, sell, and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded. Learners can, under some circumstances: 4. Use copyrighted works in creating new material. 5. Distribute their works digitally if they meet the transformative standard.

building on someone’s ideas without citation using the source too closely when paraphrasing buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper. Hiring someone to write your paper

Classroom policies and procedures that ensure compliance with copyright law, fair use guidelines, security, privacy, and student online protection.  Must use citations when plagiarizing  When paraphrasing and/or summarizing others’ work we must reproduce the exactly meaning of the other author’s ideas or facts using our words and sentence structure  Must place copyrights  A writer should always acknowledges the contributions of others and the source of his/her ideas.  Any verbatim text taken from another author must be enclosed in quotation marks.  We must always acknowledge every source that we use in our writing; whether we paraphrase it, summarize it, or enclose it quotations.  You should complete coursework yourself, using your own words, code, figures, etc.  Take reasonable precautions to ensure that others do not copy your work and present it as their own.

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