Mrs.+Hart's+Copyright+Rules

Imagine your a photographer who opens a book and sees the picture of the moutain view in New Hampshire that you took last month.

Imagine you are the lead singer of a band and you hear someone using your exact beat that you worked so hard at creating in their new song.

Imagine you wrote a poem and it is posted on a website and someone copies and pastes it to their website.

Imagine your a dancer and you choreograph a new dance move, you see it next week on tv. "That's my work!" you'll say to yourself, "who said they could use it?" If you would hate to have this happen to you, why do you copy and paste images, alter other people's work and download music without paying for it or getting permission from their original owner?

Any music, pictures, text, or other items that are not your original work (orignially thought of by you) must have proper copyright laws followed. If you copy images, text or other information without proper citations you will recieve a zero on that portion or all of the work.

If you find something in the Creative Commons Liscensing agreement you must follow that liscencing . You must ask for permission to use the work Many times all it takes to receive permission is a short email to the band outlining the intended use. An alternative to requesting permission is to use music that has been permissioned in advance (see information on the Creative Commons above). 2. Design instructors should require that students identify the source of any photos used in their projects. The photos should either be original works, photos in the public domain, or royalty free photos. 3. Art teachers should require students to bring in any photos or illustrations used as reference materials in art projects. Creating an illustration straight from a copyrighted photo is considered a derivative work, and is illegal under copyright law. 4. Encourage students to make a collage of various images to use as their source material, this helps students get away from the idea of copying and move towards the idea of creating. 5. Penalties for infringing or plagiarizing visual and audio works should be as severe as those for plagiarizing written works.