Be+Fair+and+Legal

==** “In America, ideas that you create are protected by copyright laws. If you create a book, song, painting, architectural style, or movie then nobody else can make money from that idea without your permission. There are also rules in school that prevent students from copying other people’s writing and submitting it as their own idea.” **==

** Fair Use: **

 * the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties. **

** Public Domain: **

 * the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expiredor that never had such protection. **

** Plagiarism: **

 * the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and there presentation of them as one's own original work, as by not crediting the author. **

** Royalty: **
**A payment made for some right or privilege as when a publisher pays a royalty to an author for the author's granting the publisher the right to sell the author's book**.