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The paper posits that one of the most common misconceptions in education is that Internet materials are generally not protected by copyright laws. The paper asserts, however, that despite widespread false assumptions, federal copyright laws do, in fact, protect Internet materials. The paper explains that although the federal Copyright Act of 1976 was written long before the meteoric rise of the Internet in the mid 1990s, this piece of legislation has been interpreted by courts to cover materials on the Internet (Miller, 2003, p. 104).

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"With the advent of the Internet and computer technology, many questions arise concerning the legal use of technology in the classroom. The following handout provides a brief summary and explanation of copyright laws that are applied to teacher's use of technology in the classroom. The use of Materials from the Internet One of the most common misconceptions in education is that Internet materials are generally not protected by copyright laws. However, despite widespread false assumptions, federal copyright laws do, in fact, protect Internet materials. More exactly, although the federal Copyright Act of..."

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