The Importance of Copyright

Hello to my readers and welcome back to my blog! This post is about the topic of copyright and its importance in our world today. Thanks to the internet people are able to share their creative works to those all over the world who wish to use it. However, this does not mean that those who use can do whatever they wish with that work in all circumstances, and that is what copyright is for. Copyright serves as a safeguard for your work so that it is not used in a way that you did not intend it to be used for, but sometimes copyright is seen as too restrictive so I learned that people also use Creative Commons. This allows the creator to control how they want their work to be used without having everyone ask for permission by establishing the purposes and restrictions they want placed on their work. One point I would want to get across to my students if I were to teach this topic is that the works of others are not their own therefore, they can not use someone else's work anyway they wish. I would teach them about how to know what is allowed with regards to use of the work of someone else and how to properly cite them so that they get the credit.Thank you for your time in reading this post!

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