Over the last few days I've been reading up on copyright and have definitely learned some new things. Copyright is important as it allows people to protect anything they create, it encourages people to come up with new, original ideas, knowing that others cannot use it unless they've followed specific guidelines that still allow them to take credit for its creation. A lot of new information that I learned was how copyright is applied to teaching and teaching materials. An interesting situation I found was how if used for a test, a teacher is allowed to copy a material if it is not commercially available. At the same time, if this resource is being copied for one-time use, such as a page of a workbook, that is not acceptable under copyright law. It was also interesting to read about how these laws affect alternative formats of certain works, as would be often used for students with perceptual disabilities. In these scenarios it is permissible to make copies of wor...
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