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I’m sure most of you got the right answer. I need to ask Ms Galetti’s permission to use both her presentation and her photo. Without her permission I would be breaking the law. I also need to credit her, basically, say where I got the photo and presentation from. So let’s do that. Used with kind permission,Tanya Galetti, Accra, Ghana.

Getting Ms Tanya’s permission was easy. I just had to go to the library and ask herm face to face. How about though if I had done a Google search on ‘plagiarism’ and found the presentation on Google and, let’s say it was made by someone in Peru. I can’t just pop on a plane and ask them ( I wish..I’ve always wanted to go to Peru…anyway). I would email the author but what if there is no contact address available. Should I just go ahead and use it?

Write down in number (3) what you think would be the best thing for me to do. Hmm, this copyright issue or more tricky than I thought. Just because you can find everything on the Internet, doesn’t mean you can use it, especially if you want to add it to your blog, website or wikispace. Let’s do some further investigation!

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(Check your understanding by taking the printed quiz (on the back of your worksheet) ) Let’s have a look at another video, A Tale of Two Fish. This tells us more about using images legally. Usually in class we have been citing our images by copying the URL address for the image. Is this enough? Let’s see: media type="custom" key="5787937" []

(5) On your worksheet, write why we couldn’t use the picture of the fish from the movie?

(6) Why do you think the company who owns that picture won’t let other people use it?

(7) Write down why we could use the picture of the other fish? Why could we take that pirate hat from the family picture and add it to the fish?

(8) I am allowed to use The Tale of Two Fish on this wiki? Explain your answer.