The Cloud and Ethics

In all our efforts to access different products and sharing and collaborating, it has grown on me that there must be ethical situations involving intellectual property rights. Teachers I work with consistently use online graphics and text in their lessons. At what point does sharing become theft? Yes, there are Fair Use Laws and use of someone else's property is permissible for educational purposes but with limits. An fine example of 'use of' without legalities is A Fair(y) Use Tale by Eric Faden. With so much freedom of highlighting, sharing, snipping, capturing, and collaborating, have there been studies correlating the rise of Cloud users with plagiarism? If everything is so accessible and available, the temptation or ignorance of the fact that information belongs to someone might be an issue.

Two Chinese coins together in a gourd shape.

Just my 2 cents ....