Week 6, Assignment 2

Plagiarism is a very important subject; it has been embedded in our brains since elementary school. I remember writing my first research paper in 5^th grade, and my teacher reminding us every day about plagiarism and its consequences. This week I learned about the shared culture and Creative Commons, it is a license that covers anything that copyright covers. Creative Commons is nonprofit that allows the use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools. You can use all material such as photos, songs, and blog-post as long as you give credit to the person that came up with the idea.  Another topic of this week was how to cite words and how to cite ideas. When you cite words, you quote and cite. When you cite ideas, you cite the source and give them credit for their ideas.  We also learned about the upload of YouTube videos, and how they are scanned in order to make sure there are no copyright violations. If you attempt to upload a song onto YouTube that has copyright, YouTube detects the copy and immediately informs the studio that owns the song. The studio then makes the choice of what to do next. All videos uploaded to YouTube get scanned, this means over 20 hours of video per minute. The copyright owner/owners set the rules on what to do with their song or video, if there is a copyright violation.