1. By Bria Loyd & Antoinette Hatcher

2.  What is copyright?  Does the public have rights to download music, pictures, and written work?  What is plagiarism?  How can it be avoided?  Why is it important?  If the software is for a school project, can I use it?  If a site doesn’t have the word copyright or the copyright symbol on its page can I still use it?  How do you know when something is copyrighted?  What is attribution?  Is it important?  How is it related to copyright?

3.  Copyright is the legal right which gives the originator (author, composer, artist...) the exclusive right or ownership and license to: print, publish, perform, film, distribute, copy, sell, and produce their original work for their lifetime and for a period of 70 years after his/her death. The legal act for copyright protection became law on January 1, 1978.

4.  Copyright law tries to give balance to the rights of artists and others with the rights of the public.  Fair use protects the rights of public to limit use of copyrighted materials.

5.  Plagiarism is stealing somebody's work or idea  The process of copying another person's idea or written work and claiming it as original.

6.  To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use  another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;  any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;  quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or  paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

7.  In college courses, we are continually engaged with other people’s ideas: we read them in texts, hear them in lecture, discuss them in class, and incorporate them into our own writing. As a result, it is very important that we give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

8.  Because a site doesn’t have either the word or the symbol,it don’t mean that the information isn't copyrighted.  Just about everything on the web is copyrighted.

9.  Not all works can be copyrighted. Titles, names, short phrases, ideas, methods and concepts cannot be copyrighted. Works composed entirely of common-property information with no original authorship also cannot be copyrighted.  For an original work to be copyrighted, it must be fixed in either print or a form that is communicated with a machine or device. This includes literary works, musical works, pictures, movies, audio recordings and software.

10.  the ascribing of something to somebody or something, e.g. a work of art to a specific artist or circumstances to a specific cause

11.  Attribution becomes even more powerful when expanded across other channels such as display, Face book, and mobile. Cross- channel attribution enables advertisers to define the optimal media mix, which helps in creating consistent messaging to optimize cross-channel performance.

12.  Attribution in copyright law, is the requirement to acknowledge or credit the author of a work which is used or appears in another work. Attribution is required by most copyright and copy left licenses, such as the GNU Free Documentation License and Creative Commons licenses. [1]copyright copy leftGNU Free Documentation LicenseCreative Commons [1]  Attribution is often considered the most basic of requirements made by a license, as it allows an author to accumulate a positive reputation that partially repays their work and prevents others from claiming fraudulently to have produced the work. It is widely regarded as a sign of decency and respect to acknowledge the creator by giving him/her credit for the work.decencyrespect