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| Plagiarism | a serious offense covered in the Copyright Law of 1976. Plagiarism items can include literary, dramatic, and musical works |
| Copyright | a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” |
| Infringement | can occur when someone without owner’s permission copies copyrighted work |
| Trademarks | familiar names and symbols that have become associated with quality, reliability, and or fame |
| Fair use | the acceptable boundaries to which a person may use copyrighted material without obtaining the owner’s permission |
| Music | 10% or 30 seconds of a song whichever is less |
| Video | 10% or 3 minutes of a video whichever is less |
| 30 seconds of a song | your song must be 5 minutes in length and most popular songs are only 3 to 3 ½ minutes |
| Registration of a trademark | a legal title to a symbol or idea in the same way as a deed is title to a piece of property |
| Plagiarism again | Buying a paper from a research service and turning it in as yours |
| Plagiarism again | Turning in another student’s work without that student’s knowledge and claiming it as yours |
| Plagiarism again | Turning in a paper a peer has written for you |
| Plagiarism again | Copying a paper from a source text like a book or the Internet without proper acknowledgment |
| Plagiarism again | Copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks |
| Plagiarism again | Paraphrasing materials from a source text without giving appropriate documentation |
