Blog #3
Copy right is a legal right to ownership of something. For example, if someone publishes a book and has it copy righted, they have the legal right to claim that book as their own and only they will have the right to copy that material. So if a book is copyrighted, only the author/owner can legally print more copies of that book. Fair use deals with copy right in the sense that something that is copyrighted may still be used or quoted without paying the creator, but only if it is for purposes like teaching, criticism, research, ect. I would deal with these principles as a teacher by making sure if I was copying any material, it would follow under the fair use principles for teaching. For my students, I would also make sure they were informed of copy right and fair use so they did not use any work that was not their own without it being fair use. A recent loophole with copy right has been the use of Chat GPT by students. Chat GPT is an artificial i...