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| Digital Paper Trail | This is left behind when using school or company email systems, so be sure not abuse the email system. |
| Plagairism | Taking somebody else's ideas and passing them off as your own. |
| Copyright | Protects someone who creates an original work. |
| Copyright Act of 1976 | A federal statute that provides copyright protection. |
| Permission | You need to obtain this from the copyright holder if you want to use a portion of a copyrighted work in your own work. |
| Public Domain | When a work's copyright has expired, the work is considered to here. |
| Derivative | A new work based on existing material. |
| Fair Use | Refers to the right to reprint brief excerpts from copyrighted works without obtaining permission. |
| Netiquette | New rules of etiquette that have evolved for the new communication media provided by the Internet |
| Spam | A billion dollar problem, clogging email systems and wasting time. |
| Flame | An aggressive or insulting letter. |
| Identity Theft | A crime in which someone takes your personal information and uses it to establish credit and charge items to you. |
| Phishing | A scam in which a person sends you an email in which he or she pretends to be a representative from a company that with which you do business |
| Credit | You must identify online sources that you quote in your work and give them this. |
| Webmaster of author of the article | If you want to reproduce information you found on the Web, contact them to request permission. |
| Chain letters | Never send or forward this type of email. Even if they seem like a good idea, they are often fraudulent. |
| Shouting or being rude. | Make sure you Caps Lock is off to avoid this. |
| Topic | To have a rewarding newsgroup experience, stay on this. |
| Internet | Today's identity thieves use this to solicit information from you. |
| Redirected | Make sure the URL in your browser matches the domain you visited to avoid this. |
