Explaining copyright

Copyright is used a lot in the USA, in fact copyright is actually a law. Copyright gives credit to the creators of online published pieces. If you run into a site that is copyrighted and you get information off of it and you share it, you need to give the creator credit or the website credit.giving credit can be as easy as citing the URL, or you can give full citations. Some online materials that usually consist of copyright are, literature, musical, graphic, and dramatic websites. If you don't give credit to copyrighted work it is called copyright infringement. Copyright infringement is illegal and if you are caught you can be sued for copyright infringement. Sometimes the creator will put their name into the website so it is important that you add their name into a citation. The creator is also known as the author of the website and is the person that made or created the website, hence the name creator. Sometimes there will be two or more creators, which is called joint authors. If they put their names into the website you must put their names into a citation. But if you can't find a name of a creator don't fret over it, because not every creator publishes their name on their website. And if you can't find the creator(s) name you don't have to put it into your citations, but put in as much information as possible into your citation.