A Speaker's Ethical Responsibilities

The presentation software is the public speaking development stride. We are so lucky to have the software to enhance the quality of speech. Also, we could get a lot of information through the Internet to enrich our speech content. Yet when someone copies our works through the Internet, who can protect our right? Even though we have copyright law to protect the creators of original works, there still has a gray zone that most people have unconsciously ignored. I have developed presentation media for many years, and I always carefully cite the original sources work on the Power Point. Yet I have never learned about a speaker’s ethical responsibilities when using presentation media for speech. In my opinion, when we, as speakers, represent ourselves in front of people, we have a responsibility to the public to reinforce our credibility. Therefore, accuracy, truth, objectivity, balance and fairness are a speaker’s ethical responsibilities when using someone’s work for speech. If we provide inaccurate or untruthful reports, we are not only losing respect from the audiences but also harm the creators of original works. Possibly, this bad mark may affect our future. Thus, we should comply with ethical responsibilities when developing presentation media for our speech.