- fair dealing in Canada does not contain exceptions for parody and satire.
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Fair dealing clauses
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Can make single copies of portions of works
- Research
- Privat study
- Criticism
- Review
- News reporting
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Relevant factors
- Length of the excerpts
- Relative importance & Quality of the exerpts
- Academic or Commercial intent
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Copyright Collectives
- COPIBEC (Quebec Universities)
- Access Copyright
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Internet
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What's Protected on the I'Net
- text
- Graphics
- Images
- Sound
- Video
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What's not Protected
- Facts
- Information
- titles
- Ideas
- Plots
- Short word combinations
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Other Stuff
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Made Students Copyright Owners
- Establish a library of student produced Intellectual property and make available to other students.
- Require students to copyright their work
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Creative Commons
- Definition of Creative Commons
- Sources of (cc) Resources
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Combatting Plagiarism
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Rule 1: You have the upper hand!
- Students do not plagiarise because they are smart. They plagiarize because they are lazy.
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Rule 2: Educator yourself about Plagiarism
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Download some free research papers
- http://www.oppapers.com/
- http://www.cyberessays.com/
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Rule 3: Prevent Plagiarism
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Students put off low priorities
- Include an element of interest in the assignments
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Many studens have poor time management skills
- Space out due dates for various elements of the assignment
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Some students fear that their writing ability is inadequate.
- Demonstrate how poor many downloadable papers can be.
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Some students do not know what plagiarism is.
- Provide and discuss a clear definition
- Post the definition
- Demo appropriate & inappropriate paraphrasing & quoting
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Explain that Plagiarism is cheating
- Famous Plagiarisers
- Explain Fair Dealing
- Introduce Creative Commons
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Strategies of Prevention
- Make clear assignments
- Provide list of specific & unique topics
- Make assignment authentic
- Ask for oral presentations
- Alternative mediums (video, Slide Decks, Images)
- Require metalearning (reflective essay)
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Dead Givaways
- Mixed citation styles
- Lack of quoted text
- Unusual formatting
- Off topic
- Signs of datedness
- Anachronisms
- Smoking Guns
- References to books not available in school library.
- All references at least five years old.
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Catching a Cheater
- Take the situation seriously
- Gather your evidence
- Determine who has to know
- Meet formally with the student
- Evalate your role
- EPIC