Week #1- Comment on another classmates blog #2

Week 1 Reading: Copyright

Copyright- an creators protection (If you can create it, you can protect it)

This is one word that could get you in a lot of trouble if you are not careful. This week I learned that copyright goes beyond books, articles, and music but a dance could also be copyrighted. I remember in undergrad always trying to keep an account of everything I researched to get information for our big papers that we had in Music History. Copyright is not always a fun thing to do but at least once you really get it, you know what to do and what not to do. In writing a research paper, you must cite all of your sources so that it is very clear that some of the information you are using is not your own.

Certain citations have specific requirements. If you repeat a statement that you found in a book or article you have to cite the book and page that you got the quote from. Pretty much every quote that is not yours has to be cited with a page number and the author. This is only a certain citation system. I am a songwriter and I never thought about how important it was for an author or even a dance creator to protect their works.

I am glad that copyright allows you to protect what is yours, it is kind of like an alarm system for creators.

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Cindy Price said...

Tiffany, Isn't it amazing how much trouble you can get into with just one word? Copyright is definitely a word that we all must be familiar with and know not only what it means but also the importance of it when we ourselves are creating things. I did not realize that dances and song lyrics were copyrighted but not plays and skits unless they are made into videos. This really amazed me. Being an educator, it is very important to understand all of the ins and outs of copyright. It is very easy to innocently violate this and it is unfair to the artist and creator! Your reference to citing for research papers and other school assignments is a great point! It is something that needs to be stressed throughout one's schooling from middle school to college!!!!

August 6, 2011 4:14 PM