Copyright is basically the legal rights of people who have their own content, and it prevents others from using or copying said content. People who own their content can give others permission to use their content. However, this is not the same concept as fair use. Fair use would be when people do not technically have permission to use copyrighted works, but do so anyway in small amounts. As a teacher, I think it would be very important to be creative in what works for me and my classroom, so I would try my best to come up with my own methods, but there are also so many teachers and teaching materials out there that do not have copyright issues that would be great resources to try to pool together at times. With students, I would try to teach them that everyone thinks differently and it is important to come up with original content and ideas, but I would also explain that collaboration can be a very useful tool for discovering new ideas, too. There are many issues that can com