What is Copyright?

As teachers, we have a very unique position when it comes to copyright. Everything that is created and put on the internet is copyrighted by law, and you have to have permission to use it in your day-to-day life.  So, what does that mean for teachers, since we essentially use copyrighted products every day of our teaching lives (unless you're a superhero and create brand new and innovative materials, that don't already exist, for every single lesson you do).

For the rest of the 99.9% of us, we use and adapt other peoples work all the time in our lessons, so we have the responsibility every day to properly cite and credit other peoples work by order of the Copyright Act.  Not only do we have the responsibility to cite and credit by law, but we have the responsibility to demonstrate proper accreditation to our students to give them a good base/foundation of citation/credit when they go on to secondary and post-secondary!

Dany13. (2011, April 21). Pict0400/Paris City/Notre Dame de Paris/Parvis. [Online Photo]. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/images/2fAm5P

Jarvis, Dennis. (2016, September 22). Poland - Old Town Market. [Online Photo]. Retrieved from  https://flic.kr/p/NiPApS.