Slideshare

I am confused about Slideshare.

I thought that following the instuctions made it one of the easiest of our 23 tasks and after my initial and typical "what the" on reflection I can actually see it's benefits but have my doubts about the greater good. 

I appreciate that the site is another way of making knowledge accessible.  However, if I were a student or lecturer does this mean that if I did have to give a presentation could I just download something from 'Slideshare' and present it as my own - would anyone be the wiser if I didn't 'fess up?  If I add a bit to the site does that make it 'my work'. I tried to read the terms and conditions which does talk about copyright and creative commons but I didn't fully understand.

The links that were given for 23 things were a bit "dry" and I felt you actually had to be at the presentation to totally understand the message but after browsing for a while I came across links that were more pertinent to me and although I probably wouldn't need to use them in my daily life  they did make very interesting reading.

The site that I found was:-

<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/1802901" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/trinityblu/how-do-you-see-books" title="How Do You See Books..." target="_blank">How Do You See Books...</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/trinityblu" target="_blank">Trinity Blu*** Don't Thank Me for Viewing Shows....but Rather, Pay It Forward :))*** </a></strong> </div>