Copyright or Copywrong?

Originally copyright laws only applied to the copying of books, over time other uses for copyrights have become popular. Copyright is a law that gives ownership to something of which someone has created. It could be a novel, a painting or a poem, if someone created it some one owns it. The copyright law itself assures the owner ship. A copywrite proves ownership which grants certain rights to the owner, including:

• The right to reproduce the work
• To prepare derivative works
• To display the work publicly

These rights are allowed to the owner and the owner alone. The owner must willingly give up the rights to even allow someone to allow copies made of their work. Copyright owners have the exclusive statutory right to exercise control over copying and other exploitation of the works for a specific period of time
While reading about copyrights I read the following example: "It’s no different than owning a car, a house or a pen. One can lend it out to a friend, sell it, modify it or even destroy it. In short, if you own the copyright to something, you have the same rights that you do with anything else and, in some instances, even more." I thought this quote gave a good illistration of how a copyright works. 
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/1-what-is-a-copyright/


I looked at the Copyright and Fair Use Guidelinees for Teacher from the resources provided on Blackboard. The chart explained what teacher are allow to by law. I also liked the the chart states that the chart may be copied and spread to others. It's interesting that copyrights are so important for teacher to follow, before this class I wouldn't have thought it was so important to have permission to pieces of work. Citing sources is as far as I have thought into copyrights, very interesting!