Copyright Questions

1. Copyright is a form of protection given to authors of original work. This

mean you must give credit to the author if you use any of their words
from their work.
2. 70 years after the author of the work dies.
3. The fair use act states that brief excerpts of copyright material to
criticize, news reporting, teaching, and research, without need for
permission of the author.
4. Plagiarism is when you take someone elses words and pretend that
they are your own.
5. Documents from the internet, quotes, books, and more can be
copyrighted. Parts of songs cannot be copyrighted.
6. Works in a public domain belong to everyone and can be freely used
without giving credit to the author.
7. The fair use act covers documents, songs, and some online
information.