Educational Technology and Copyright Law

In this article I have learned things that I never knew before. I had no idea that once you start writing or even hum a tune the work is immediately copyrighted. I also was unsure of the four rights that you have once you have copyrighted: 1) Reproduce the copyrighted work, 2) Display the copyrighted work publicly, 3) Prepare derivative work based on the copyrighted work, 4) Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display the image. The last thing that I was informed about was that whenever you get an image off of the internet, yo should give the author credit.