IntroductionAs recently as twenty years ago, saying "copyright" to teachers most likely conjured up in their minds images of the fine print notice at the beginning of 'a manual. Today, with the world of Web 2.0 technology at our fingertips, copyright issues for educators can be confusing and complex. Add to that the ever-increasing emphasis on tech literacy in our states' education standards — requiring teachers to integrate apps and resources that might be uncharted territory for them — and the waters become even murkier. Teachers bear the dual burden of scrupulously adhering to copyright laws in their daily integration of technology into the classroom, while instilling copyright ethics in students as they uphold copyright standards. State in terms of technological and media education. Review of education-related copyright literature provides clarity on copyright and fair use as applied to classroom practices, suggests barriers to copyright compliance among educators and provides suggestions on how to teach copyright ethics to a tech-savvy generation. LawIn its simplest terms, copyright is the U.S. government's means of protecting the rights of anyone who creates an original work, such as a play, song, poem, book, or work of art. Only the original author or creator of the work may make copies, distribute, sell, perform or adapt this work. Originally passed 35 years ago, the Copyright Act of 1976 has undergone numerous changes as a result of technological advances, including the categorization of any work on the Internet as "published" (Copyright Act from 1976). From Thibault, N. 3, Of particular interest to educators is the doctrine of "fair use", which grants a get-out-of-jail-free card (so to speak) to anyone using the copyrighted medium of the paper ... ... in his book Copyright Clarity arguing that the authors of copyright law intended intellectual property protection to encourage the creativity of inventors, not stifle it. Conclusion As educators, a partial understanding or half-hearted adherence to copyright and fair use laws is not enough. Now is the time to teach students how to creatively and legally take advantage of the plethora of resources available to them on the Internet. Web 2.0 tools are becoming increasingly popular in post-secondary education, and this generation of students is likely to “produce a significant amount of content” during their educational journey (Diaz, 2010, p61). These students need to know what rights they have to the content they have created, and be sure that any resources they have incorporated along the way have been done ethically...