Cyber Safety
Fake News
Fake News is false or misleading information presented as news. It is oftened aimed at damaging the reputation of a person or entity. Fake News has been prevalent throughout all of modern history, but has become more common and available because of the invention of social media. Recently Fake News has been used to spread lies and conspiracy theories about the results of the 2020 election and a supposed link between vaccines and autism.
Fake News is commonly associated with the spread of dangerous lies and misconceptions. Fake News often entices people with eye-catching thumbnails and titles. This can be bad not only because it perpetuates false information, but also because it blocks out and distracts from real important news. Though I doubt most people who click on fake news articles believe the story just clicking on the article could cause the author to create more.
Copyright
Copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to make copies of a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial rights". This means that copyrights granted by the law of a certain state, do not extend beyond the territory of that specific jurisdiction. Copyrights of this type vary by country; many countries, and sometimes a large group of countries, have made agreements with other countries on procedures applicable when works "cross" national borders or national rights are inconsistent
he concept of copyright developed after the printing press came into use in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. The printing press made it much cheaper to produce works, but as there was initially no copyright law, anyone could buy or rent a press and print any text. Popular new works were immediately re-set and re-published by competitors, so printers needed a constant stream of new material. Fees paid to authors for new works were high, and significantly supplemented the incomes of many academics.
