Abstract—The digital age that began the widespread use of Internet makes it easy to share and copy information instantly. With the initiatives of putting into place internets’ regulations and standards on copyright, thus made it easier to safeguard the right of the owners. As part of a wider body of the law on Intellectual Property, copyright is considered as collection of all rights enjoyed by the owner’s artistic or literary works. The level of awareness about copyright and copyright violation among college students were investigated in this study. Specifically, various factors such as plagiarism, citations, infringement, seminars and trainings were taken into consideration to determine the awareness level among students of City College of Angeles on copyright. A total of 165 student-respondents from different institute courses participated in this study. SmartPLS 3 was adopted to justify the significance of the suggested factors. Generalizability of this study maybe validated in different location.
Index Terms—CCA students, citation, copyright, infringement, plagiarism.
Recto R. Pangilinan is with the Angeles City Library and Information Center, Angeles City Pampanga, Philippines (e-mail: rectopangilinan49@gmail.com). Myka May T. Yutuc, Jennylyn C. Nuqui, and Lanie L. Garnica are with City College of Angeles, Angeles City Pampanga, Philippines (e-mail: mykataryaoyutuc@gmail.com, nuquijennylyn@gmail.com, laniegarnicablis@gmail.com). Solomon Ayodele Oluyinka was with Baliuag University, Bulacan, Philippines and also works as a part-time teacher in City College of Angeles, Philippines (e-mail: solomon467@gmail.com). Amor I. Barba was with the City College of Angeles, the Institute of Business and Management, Philippines (e-mail: aibarba50@gmail.com).
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Cite: Recto R. Pangilinan, Myka May T. Yutuc, Jennylyn C. Nuqui, Lanie L. Garnica, Solomon Ayodele Oluyinka, and Amor I. Barba, "Study on Copyright Awareness among College Students," International Journal of Knowledge Engineering vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 35-39, 2020.
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