Ibrahim's Blog

Today as part of our Virtual Cafe weekly meeting we, teachers – webheads had a discussion about the Copyright. It is very frequent issue that many teachers face while using different sources in their teaching.

Here is what Wikipedia says about Copyright: “Copyright is a set of exclusive rights regulating the use of a particular expression of an idea or information. At its most general, it is literally “the right to copy” an original creation. In most cases, these rights are of limited duration. The symbol for copyright is “©”, and in some jurisdictions may alternatively be written as either (c) or (C).”

When we create something, it automatically gets copyrighted no matter we include copyright notice of a symbol of it. And while using copyrighted works like texts, images and other things, we have to clearly cite the resources used and give credits to their creators and ask original author for permission. In case, when there is no author, one has to include url, books and publishers or companies. By doing this, we can express our respect to authors for their efforts to prepare materials and encourage them to create more useful resources. Before using materials check the terms of use whether the licenses allow you to copy, distribute and create derivative works based on the one which you are going to use.

This is huge topic and I will try to briefly and simply write about this issue in my next entries.

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