Copyright. It's not your's, it's mine. It's not mine, it's yours. Wait, whose is it? It's a sticky issue, especially on the brink of today's technology where a song or movie that costs so much money to create can be downloaded free of charge. I have personally learned about it by getting a letter from NBC after illegal downloading one of their shows. Call me a pirate, but I missed the show and this was before Hulu. Keep in mind it was a warning, but a warning like that lets you know just how serious something like this is. People have gone to jail over downloading an album. People have been sued for downloading a song. It has gotten to a point where copyright is the name of the game, and if you don'e play by the rules, you are out. But how is something copyrighted? Any original piece of material you create is automatically copyrighted. But use an image on the internet, and you are in violation. Why? IT'S NOT YOUR IMAGE! You MUST cite where the image came from or you are illegally using someone else's photograph.
In Computer Science we learned that depending on the programming language we use, our program can be copywritten just by creating it, otherwise we have to submit it to a specific license to have it copywritten. So not everything you make has a copyright, but watch out. If you download movies and music, might want to think twice, because seeing a movie a few months before it hits DVD is not worth a $10,000 fine.
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