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Copyright

Copyright is a protection that covers published and unpublished literary, scientific and artistic works. If you can read it, see it, hear it and/or touch it, it could be copyrighted. Copyright laws grant the creator the exclusive right to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, perform and display the work publicly. When you use quotes or get ideas from the work of someone else you must use the material within the guidelines of copyright and give the author appropriate credit.

You are guilty of copyright infringement if you:

• Reproduce a classmate's complete textbook on the photocopier instead of buying a copy for yourself.
• Don’t give proper credit to an author whose work you use.
• Sell all your friends a bootleg copy of your favorite CD.

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