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Copyright Laws
What They Mean To You
By Kathy Edmondson, NBCT Media SpecialistSlide2
Copyright
Copyright is a property right granted to authors.
Copyrighted work is “any tangible medium of expression, which can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either with the aid of a machine or device.” (1976 Copyright Law).
If granted before 1978, it lasts for 28 years and can be renewed for 47 more years.
If granted after 1978, it lasts the life of the author plus 70 years.Slide3
Copyright Laws Apply To
Taping Broadcasts (may be retained only 45 days from date of recording)
Networking & Duplicating Software (it is a violation of the federal copyright law to duplicate software)
Multimedia Productions (students may use the production only during the time period of the class for which it was produced)
The Internet (assume that all Internet materials are copyrighted and that the copyright laws apply)Slide4
Why Is This Important?
It’s the law!Slide5
The Story of Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodwin is a famous historian who wrote books on many famous Americans like Lyndon Johnson, the Kennedy family, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize.Slide6
Goodwin Plagiarizes!
Goodwin, 59, has admitted copying numerous passages, uncredited, from at least three other books into her 1987 best-seller,
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys
.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 24, 2002. p. F1Slide7
History News Network
History News Network took notice of her plagiarism and featured this cartoon of her and Stephen Ambrose, who is also guilty of plagiarism, with a “P” emblazoned on their chests.
www.historynewsnetwork.com
(copied with permission)Slide8
What Does Plagiarize Mean?
“To steal and pass off as one’s own (the ideas or words of another): use (a created production) without crediting the source. . .”
(
Webster’s Third New International Dictionary
)Slide9
What Can Happen?
Like Goodwin, you can lose your job. She has had to cancel speeches and take a leave of absence from the Pulitzer Prize board and from her job as an analyst for PBS’ “The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.” Since plagiarism is against the law, you can also be prosecuted by the court system.Slide10
Other Professionals Are Punished
Mark Hornung, editor for the Chicago Sun-Times, resigned after he admitted lifting twelve paragraphs nearly verbatim from a Washington Post editorial.
Ken Hamblin, a Denver Post columnist, was suspended for two months after he plagiarized five paragraphs.
Bob Hepburn, of the Toronto Star, plagiarized three paragraphs and was placed on leave.Slide11
Others Punished
Fox Butterfield, Boston bureau chief for the New York Times, got a one-week suspension after he took five paragraphs from a Boston Globe story.
Gregory Freeman, a columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, took three sentences from a Boston Globe column. His column was suspended for a month and he was sent on “vacation.”
(Lieberman, Trudy. “Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Plagiarize . . .”
www.cjr.org/year/95/4/plagiarize.asp
)Slide12
Auburn University Policy
Auburn University punishes cheating in one or more of the following ways:
a grade of Zero on the project plagiarized;
a notation of dishonesty on your transcript for a designated length of time;
incident is reported to the Dean of your school;
grade of F in the course;
suspension from school for a designated time;
expulsion from Auburn University.
(SGA Code of Laws, p. 49, http://web6.duc.auburn.edu/sga/code_of_laws.pdf)Slide13
Sykes Jr. High School Policy
Plagiarism is considered cheating at our school. The student handbook (2004) says this about cheating, “Cheating on academic work will not be tolerated. When a teacher becomes aware that a student is cheating, the assignment (test paper, etc.) will be taken up by the teacher, a zero (0) will be given for that grade or activity, and the parents will be notified.”Slide14
What Can You Do?
Carefully cite all resources that you use for information. You are safer to over-reference than to skimp.
Include author, title, date of publication, page numbers of information. Give the reference as soon as you’ve mentioned the idea you are using.
For web sites, use at least the web address if no other information is available. Usually you will find a title to the page at the top and the author and other information at the bottom of the web page.Slide15
Sample Bibliography for Internet Article
Smith, Jane W. “How to Identify Crop Circles.”
Science Digest
. 25 Feb. 2002: 45-50. Ebsco. LBSLJHS, Lanett, AL. 25 Feb. 2002. Keyword: Crop Circles.Slide16
http://www.easybib.com/
http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php
These web sites will help you create your bibliography in the correct format.Slide17
Final Notes
Keep careful notes.
Write down address and other information of all web sites you visit.
Write down author names, titles of articles, page numbers, titles of publications.Slide18
Remember
Don’t get branded with the “P” of Plagiarism. Give credit to the “owner” of the sources you use!