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Copyright Vocabulary

Terms in this set (24)

Copyright
is a form of protection given to the author or creators of "original works or authorship"
Copyright Owner
is a person or a company who owns any one of the Exclusive Rights of copyright in a work.
Creative Commons
licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
Fair Use
is the right of public to make reasonable use of copyright materials in special circumstances without the copyright owner
Public Domain
Works that are in the public domain belong to everyone and can be freely used without compensating the authors.
Trademark
is any word, name, symbol or device used by a person or a company to identify and distinguish its products (as opposed to services, which are covered by Service Marks) from the products of others in the same business. Target bulls eye is a trademark for Target. The Chick-a -Fla phrase is a trade mark that can't be copied.
Derivative Work
is a work that is "based upon one or more preexisting works
Copyright Infringement
is the unauthorized use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's "exclusive rights", such as the right to reproduce
Plagiarism
is taking someone's work and calling it yours
Paraphrasing
is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.
Work for hire
is either (1) a work prepared by an employee as part of her work, in which case the employer owns the copyright in the work, or (2) a work specially commissioned or ordered as a contribution to a Collective Work or Compilation
Expression
the words you use to tell a story, the picture that you paint, and the lyrics to a song you wrote are all types of "expression
License
is the permission granted by a copyright owner (also known as the "licensor") to the person requesting the right to exercise one or more of these exclusive rights
Royalty—private sector taxes) are usage-based payments made by one party (the "licensee") to another
Right of Publicity
is a right under state law (as opposed to under federal law like copyright) that every person has the right to control the commercial use of his or her identity.
Publish
a work means to distribute copies of that work to the public.
Performing Rights
The right to perform a composition in public; this is one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder.
Media
term applied to agencies of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, and telecommunications
Patent
is a type of Intellectual Property that relates to inventions.
Musical Composition
is a musical work, such as a song or piano piece, created by a composer using melody (tones and rhythms), harmony (chords), and lyrics
Sound Recording
the recording of dialogue and other sound that takes place simultaneously with the filming of a scene
Citation
A written reference to a specific work (book, article, dissertation, report, musical composition, etc.) by a particular author or creator which identifies the document in which the work may be found.
Ethics
the principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
Creative Works
..., poems, dances, paintings, writings, and other aesthetic creations
Piracy
the stealing of software by copying it and giving or selling it to another person.
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