Thursday, September 2, 2010

Copyright Vocabulary

Copyright - Protects works from being stolen or plagiarized. (Only to things that are real and can be worked with, no thoughts)

Fair Use - States how much you can use a copyrighted material without permission.

First Sale Doctrine - Allows the person who buys the copyright to do whatever they want with the material as long as no additional copies are made.

Intellectual Property - Intangible (from your imagination)

Patent - (For a limited time) Something that only allows you to use your new invention. Nobody else can use it.

Permission - The owner allows you to reprint or reproduce a copyright material.

Phonorecord - Allows you to play, record, and store music in a digital format on computers or other devices.

Plagiarism - Stealing ideas and passing them off as your own. Also using another person's idea without crediting them.

Public Domain - Copyright protection that has expired and works that are created by a government employee.

Trademark - Word or symbol that identifies a product or company. (Apple's apple, McDonald's arches, Nike's checkmark, etc.)

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