Post number one. Breaking the rules. All of them.

RULE NUMBER ONE DO NOT DOWNLOAD ILLEGAL CONTENT.
This includes but is not limited to:
-Music (no stealing "beats" from your favorite rapper so you can do your best free style that still   stinks... might as well create your own cruddy beat and add your cruddy rap to it... maybe it will stink so much someone will pity like you.)
-Books (read them, write them, don't throw them on a copy machine and use the pages as your own.)
-Icons (just because you throw something in photoshop or indesign and change its color doesn't mean it doesn't still represent the original company)
-Papers (its called plagiarism... usually gets you failed)
-Photos (including those of cats)
-Ideas  (yes I mean ideas... in this day and age everything you think is immediately copyrighted. well not everything.. let me define that a little better... Keep scrolling.)

Anyways, the copyrighting of ideas is called Intellectual Property Rights. Here is the Government Definition.

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce.

IP is divided into two categories:  Industrial property, which includes inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs, and geographic indications of source; and Copyright, which includes literary and artistic works such as novels, poems and plays, films, musical works, artistic works such as drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures, and architectural designs.  Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recordings, and those of broadcasters in their radio and television programs.  For an introduction to IP for non-specialists, refer to:

• WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook (a comprehensive introduction to the policy, law and use of IP)
• Understanding Copyright and Related Rights 
• Understanding Industrial Property 

The innovations and creative expressions of indigenous and local communities are also IP, yet because they are “traditional” they may not be fully protected by existing IP systems.  Access to, and equitable benefit-sharing in, genetic resources also raise IP questions.  Normative and capacity-building programs are underway at WIPO to develop balanced and appropriate legal and practical responses to these issues.  For more information, refer to:

• IP and Traditional Knowledge 
• IP and Traditional Cultural Expressions/Folklore 

So, as long as your ideas have not become a social norm or a cult of your followers have not already accomplished or done what you do religiously. You have a right to your thoughts. 

(P.s. I am a debater so I underline and bold the important sh.. stuff.)

Now, when I tell you to not break the rules, I mean don't do it the wrong way. You see here, I am a debater, as mentioned about 5 seconds ago. You have no clue how many times I have thrown a book on a copy machine. HOWEVER I do this with reason. I give credit where do and never EVER read a part of a book with out the full citation. If you plan on breaking these rules, don't get caught. And if someone around you thinks about something cool before you, make them tell you while you are alone then run around campus like a maniac telling everyone it was your idea. When they take you to court you will have all of the witnesses saying you told them your ideas first! However, if you are as unlucky as me they will have already told a thousand people and when you claim it everyone will call you out and you will look like a jerk. 

All in all. Don't copy and paste stuff. Unless you are good at it.

P.s.- Clearly this isn't ALL of the rules... Ill post more later... Class is over and I am feeling lazy. Pssh... Typical College Student.