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Copyright and its importance

What is copyright and why is it so important? You have probably no idea what copyright actually means. Well you are not the only out there with this dilemma. I will start by defining ‘copyright’. It is “the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same” [1] . My definition of copyright is the same one as the one from the google dictionary. Adding a bit of my own words to it would ruin the entire definition. I am writing this because I think that everyone needs to know and understand the rules of copyright and why they are so important. As the definition says, copyright protects the owner of the information that has been published and it also credits the owners’ originality. “Having ownership means you can protect your work as intellectual property and control who makes money off of it — ideally you and those to whom you assign rights.” [2] ...
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How to cite an image you find on the internet So we are currently learning about citing other people's work and, obviously, giving them their credit and not plagiarize the process. When uploading a picture from the Internet, I advice you to use Google. First you search for the image on Google, then click on the 'tools' tab and the click on the 'usage rights' tab. After clicking the tab select 'labelled for noncommercial reuse and modification'. This will show you pictures that can be used again without plagiarizing. Once you have found the picture you want to use, you can now cite it and give the link to the website where you found it. Bibliography 1.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther.jpg
The things they carried by Tim O’Brien The first chapter is about the things the soldiers from America carried during the war in Vietnam. The title is continuously repeated throughout the chapter the first chapter. O’Brien does this to make me as the reader focus on what they carry and also question myself what these things they are carrying mean? And why are they carrying them? I Am from South Africa and I’m currently studying in the USA in Iowa. I am an alien to America and I carry the burden of being judged and seen as a stranger to the native people of American, even the African-Americans see me as strange. And these are the things that I carry. Whilst reading through the chapter I realized that I was ‘Vietnam’ and the soldiers were the natives of America in my year group. In the text, O’Brien writes about how the soldiers had to invade villages in Vietnam and they sometimes had to kill the innocent people because they weren’t sure who was on their true enemy. I do not ...