Copyright and New Media Assignment

You have completed the Information Ethics Tutorial, but what does all this stuff mean for you as a student in a computer-assisted writing course?

Using sources like those aggregated at the Library's E-Reference Link on Copyright and Wikipedia, define the following sources in your own words. (Make note of where you got the information from which you are building.) Post your definitions in your blog.

1. failing to cite vs. copyright violation
2. Creative Commons
3. Fair Use doctrine
4. wiki
5. social software
6. patent vs. copyright
7. Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998
8. Project Gutenberg
9. Licensing
10. orphan work
11. Public Domain