Does copyright affect students

Answer 1

The primary impact that copyright has on school work is the difficulty in establishing what copyrighted materials are permitted to use, what qualifies as "fair use", and what is not permitted to use even for educational purposes.

Answer 2

When creating works, copyright protects creative works as soon as they are fixed in a tangible form. Some colleges and universities assert that all classroom assignments become copyright of the school, but in other cases, the students should retain their rights.

When using works, copyright law limits some uses and allows others. If you're doing a presentation, for example, you can't just lift photos from the internet and include them without permission. But if you're writing a paper, you can quote others' works as long as you properly cite them.

As an aside, extensive quoting from Wikipedia is not technically copyright infringement, because Wikipedia carries a Creative Commons license. It is, however, considered plagiarism, which is punishable in most academic and professional environments.

Answer 3

Unclear whether you mean copyright owned by a person who happens to be a teacher or some joint authorship of creative works in which a teacher participated. In the latter case, a teacher could (in theory) be considered an "author" of the jointly created work, i.e., the copyright would be jointly owned with the student(s) and the teacher or the teacher's employer (when the employer is considered the legal author of all works created by an employee).

Answer 4

Depending on school policy, schoolwork may be copyrightable by the student, or rights may automatically transfer to the institution.

Copyright law includes many exceptions for educational uses of others' copyright works.

Answer 5

The "fair use" or "fair dealing" section of copyright law allows certain limited unlicensed uses for teaching and scholarship, butthis does not guarantee that every school use is fair.

Depending on school policy, students may be able to claim copyright in the original works they create in school.

Answer 6

Copyright law includes a number of exceptions for educational uses. See the link below for a concise discussion.

Answer 7

Copyright places some restrictions on what you can use for coursework, but also takes pains to make a variety of unlicensed educational uses possible.

Answer 8

yes