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Copyright rules and how to site sources

Under the fair use doctrine you are allowed to use "limited portions" of content without giving credit if it is being used for academic research, news, or TAPS. This doctrien also requires you to give credit to the creator when you use their materials. In using motion media like music or movies and tv you can only use 10 percent or 3 minuets of content, what ever is less. With lyrics you can only use 10 percent but no more than 30 seconds of actual lyrics.

There are places where you can take content meant for public use without the need to always site your source, however sometimes you have to pay a small fee to use the content. Creative commons is a non profit organization meant to help create legal content for the public to use and build on. The two licenses avalible for content creators on creative commons are attribution and non comerical. Attribution is the ability to use content but yu have to give credit to the original author. Non commerical is the permission to use another's content but you are not allowed to use it to make money for yourself.