Before the discussion in class, I had never realized how many copyright laws there were concerning books, movies, dances, songs, and ideas. Just a simple song like “Happy Birthday” has copyright laws! So yes, you may think that you don’t, but all of us have broken a copyright law sometime during our lifetime. Copyright is a very good thing to protect authors and artists, but it makes a student’s job a lot harder if they are writing a research paper. One way you can follow copyright laws, is to cite all of the sources you use in a paper as in text citations as well as on a bibliography page. This helps give credit to the main source of your research, and shows that it wasn’t your idea. There are many grey areas within copyright laws, which make it hard to determine when they are being broken. Government is the main source of regulation, but it is easier to be familiar with them yourself. Here is a website that will help you cite your sources where you do not break copyright.
http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/
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