Your work is automatically protected if:

1. It is your original work;
and,

2. It is in some kind of
readable or tangible form.

You own the rights
to your own works.

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Plagiarism is using someone else's words, graphics or ideas without an appropriate citation acknowledging the source. Plagiarism is academic fraud.

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Your Exclusive Ownership Rights

The Copyright Law [§ 106] guarantees certain exclusive rights of ownership to you for the works you have created. Some examples include: a video project, a podcast, an artwork, a musical composition, a vodcast, a multimedia project, a paper, a thesis, a creative project.
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Ball State University Copyright Infringement

Ball State Student Rights and Community Standards, V. Code of Conduct, 5.2.3

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