Copyright and Fair Use
What is a Copyright?
Copyright
is something that our government gives to authors and creators. It protects
their work for a certain time from being copied or used without permission
and for someone else’s gain. This protects their works from plagiarism.
What is Fair Use?
Fair
use is what allows the copy of copyrighted materials without permission in
certain circumstances. You can’t make a profit from their work, but you can
use it to create something new or use it in a classroom to show how it fits
into a subject. This allows people to use private works to make points or
give examples in papers or teachers to print copies of something in order to
show it to students.
Definition and Explanation of Fair Use