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I had the chance to learn a number of new things about copyright. First of all I learned about the instances in which it's approved to use someone's material and how you you can present it to others. I remember learning that material is to made available for the public domain 100 years after its release, or in the case of an individual performer, 70 years after their death.

Nowadays there are a number of websites that inform students and their parents alike of how you can protect yourself against the potential terrors of the internet. In addition, as an educator I would hope to advise students against improper use of the internet in terms of avoidance of posting personal information and indulging information on chat rooms. Aside from that I would want to be informative to the parents on different monitoring or anti-virus software that could help prevent any issues there.

I learned that copyrights pertain to the rights that are held by an originator of a work which prevent others from infringing upon those works. There are exceptions to copyrights which would allow people to use that material, and again I know after a given amount of time it becomes available to the public domain.Copyleft, from what I understand pertains to a modified version of an original work that is being made available for free.

Meanwhile the Creative Commons is an organization that has been established with the purpose of the creators to have licenses to indicate their work and the conditions upon which those works are to be shared with others. I would hope to educate students on the details of copyright as I didn't understand them growing up so that they can come up with new and interesting ways of educating themselves and others without violating the law. This will encourage them along on their education avenue and bring a new excitement for their exploration.