Copyright

* Defining //copyright//
"The exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor, etc."

__Other Copyright Vocabulary:__ The public domain is not a place. A work of authorship is in the “public domain” if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the permission of the former copyright owner." (Retrieved 3/18/07 from [|Copyright.gov FAQ])
 * Public Domain**


 * Citation:** //To quote directly//. To "cite your sources" means that you created a list of sources you used. People have thought up several formats for doing this; they're very picky about how it should be done. Stay tuned for more resources to help you do this correctly.

If it's not in your own words (or if the big part of the idea isn't all yours), it's very important to give credit to the place you found the words or the idea that you want to use.


 * Source**: When you're doing research, the source is //where you found your information//. A source could be a book, an online database, a newspaper, another person, the radio...and there are different ways for "citing" different sources! Isn't this great?

* Web Pages to Consult
The [|US Copyright Office] [|Creative Commons] Miss Melissa's [|article about CC] (written for her technology class, fall 2006)

*** Images in the public domain**
[|Wikipedia's List of Public-Domain Images]

[|How to Cite Your Sources]: From the Pearl K. Wise Library at the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School**
 * [|MLA] (Modern Language Association) style sheet