This is what you will learn in this corse:

Why is this important for you as a student?

When you write an essay, thesis or exam or create a picture for something, you immediately recieve copyright. It doesn't matter if it's published or not, you are the copyright holder and as such you can decide what others may or may not do with your work.
When you use other peoples work, you refer to them as creators and copyright holders. To cite correctly when it comes to academic texts we imprint on you from the first day at university, but it is also true for everything else you might need to use, like pictures or music for a presentation.
When you publish your essay in DiVA your essay becomes accessible for anyone and you have to make sure you have the right to use everything in it, like pictures and so on.