Use these tutorials to learn more about how copyright applies to you:
UCLA Library. Carlos and Eddie’s Guide to Bruin Success with Less Stress: Intellectual Property Created by the UCLA Library and used with permission. The Regents of the University of California continue to hold copyright for all UCLA Library Web site content.
Woodring College of Education. Western Washington University. Copyright
Copyright law protects the rights of authors (artists, web designers, photographers, etc) over their original works (published or unpublished) by giving them the exclusive rights to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, publicly perform, or display those works. Works include everything from images to recordings…computer programs to books. You might think everybody copies, is everyone in violation? No, the law provides some exceptions and others request and are granted permission.
Created by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University. This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License
Is it illegal? The following tutorial created by Indiana University goes into detail about Limewire, BitTorrent, and copyright law...