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"People routinely get away with illegal copying in the classroom for
the same reason that people get away with speeding on the interstate,"

Copyright, according to
Dictionary.com, is "the legal right granted to an author, a composer,
a playwright, a publisher, or a distributor to exclusive publication,
production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or
artistic work."

* Quoting or crediting the author of a copied work
does not satisfy copyright requirements.

deserves to be compensated

copyrightable work must be tangible.

written down or recorded.

An author does not have to register
the work, announce that the work is copyright protected, or display the
copyright symbol to enjoy copyright protection. All he or she must do
is create an original work in tangible form.

not copyright protected is surprisingly
short.

he public domain includes

rule of thumb -- when in doubt,
assume a work is copyrighted and ask permission to use it.

To use search engines effectively, it is essential to apply techniques that narrow results and push the most relevant pages to the top of the results list.

Connecting search terms with AND tells the search engine to retrieve web pages containing ALL the keywords.

Linking search terms with OR tells the search engine to retrieve web pages containing ANY and ALL keywords.

AND NOT

The plus sign (+) is the equivalent of AND, and the minus sign (-) is the equivalent of AND NOT.
There is no space between the plus or minus sign and the keyword.

double quotes

if you want both upper and lower case occurrences returned, type your keywords in all lower case letters

most search engines interpret singular keywords as singular or plural

URL SEARCH limits search results to web pages

LINK SEARCH when you want to know what websites are linked to a particular site of interest.

you can often find a good starting point

they are most effective for finding general information on popular or scholarly subjects.

Successful searching involves two key steps.

For example, search engines (e.g., AltaVista) are very different than subject directories (e.g., Yahoo).
Even search engines themselves can vary greatly in size, accuracy, features, and flexibility

Second, you need to know how to use the various search tools available on the Internet.