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Don't Steal from the Web!
Do you think that you can hurt someone's business by taking or using things
they create on the WWW? Sometimes you can, huh? It's perfectly alright to
use ideas from something you read on the web, facts, pieces of something
someone wrote (don't forget to use quotes and cite the author!), graphics,
sounds, and video. But there are rules and you need to know the rules before
you go taking stuff from the WWW.
Read the following that tells what is fair for students and teachers to use.
Click
here.
Then, read some
do's and don'ts about copyright issues that affect us as web page
designers (don't forget to come back here when you're done).
When you are done, click on the back button to return here.
Look for this
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Look at the following sites with your partner and scan the pages to see if the author of the web site gives you permission to use graphics, text, or anything else from the web site. Pick a fourth web site of your own and do the same thing.
Use this questionnaire to answer some questions about each of the four sites. Printing out the questionnaire will make this activity much easier. When you are done answering all the questions, come back to this site and CLICK HERE! (CLICK HERE only when you are done.)
Pick your favorite site for number 4!
These pages created by Mr. González and students.
Email us at:
Al_Gonzalez@csd49.org
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