Ethics and Copyright Law
I am going to show you how to download images from the Internet and how to copy and paste.
Before I do so, I need to tell you about copyright laws and talk to you about ethics issues.
All web pages and images that you find on the Internet are copyrighted - whether they say so or not.
It is illegal to post anyone else's work on your web page without the owner's permission. There is a standard form
that you can e-mail to a webpage author or an image creator to seek their permission. We will discuss this in
class. When permission is granted, the form must be kept on file in the classroom.
Some images on the web are "free." Almost all web pages that contain free images have rules for
their use listed on the page. Usually, the owner wants to be acknowledged on your web page or in your HTML code.
My rule: If you copy or download an image from the Internet, you must also copy the URL of the page where you got the image
and post it on your page. It can be posted as a link to the actual site or placed in the alt attribute. You need to be careful about the
images that you copy. Check twice to be sure that they are free images! Also, read the terms of use and abide by them.
Take a look at the Sequoia District's Board of Trustees approved Web Publishing Guidelines for the district. In the guidelines
it says teachers shall explain to students that:
- Network services and web servers have been established for educational purposes only;
- Most transmissions over the Internet/Intranet can be intercepted and read by other persons on the Internet/Intranet and places outside the District;
- Information posted on the Internet/Intranet is not necessarily fact;
- All original work posted on the web is protected by copyright law and cannot be used without the author's permission; and
- There are rules of network etiquette and general web publishing guidelines.
Also, the guidelines explain that:
- A student's full name shall not be published without the student's and a parent's written consent.
- A student's personal information (home address, e-mail address, or phone number) shall not appear in any Internet/Intranet published materials.
- To ensure student safety, a student's picture and full name shall not appear on the same page.
Most of the pages that we produce will only be published in our classroom and not on an Internet or Intranet web page. You will
have to have a signed agreement on file before we can publish any of your web pages on the Internet.
You are already aware of the Telecommunications Use Agreement that you signed at the beginning of the semester. Please reread the agreement so that you know all of the rules. Your signed copies are in your folders in the file cabinet.
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