Copyright

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The primary motive of Copyrighting an item is to protect an arthur's or inventor's ideas. These people have devoted time and intellectual thoughts to creating these idea, and it is important that they be credited for it. It is necessary to believe that Copyrighted items came about as a result of arthur's works becoming stolen. 

I believe the main goal Copyrighting is to keep people from benefiting off another person creation. If I steal your idea I can benefit financially or even socially. So Copyrights makes sure to protect the creator of an idea by setting up Copyright Laws.

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I think as a teacher much of what you do will be influence in some sort of way by Copyright Laws, since we are constantly in contact with literature. But teachers are protected by Fair Use Laws, which is a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. In the United States, fair use permits limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Since we as teachers will be using Copyrighted material for the benefit of education and not for the benefit of profiting from it, we are able to use Copyrighted materials. Even though this is the case I believe it is important to teach student about Copyrighting so they themselves can follow appropriate practices.  


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Reference

References: “Fair Use." Copyright. U.S. Copyright Office, 05 2012. Web. 15 Oct 2012. <http://www.copyright.gov/>.