Copyright Vocabulary

5. Copying, “lifting,” or making slight changes to some or all of someone else’s work and saying you created it.
6. Stealing copyrighted work by downloading or copying it in order to keep, sell, or give it away without permission and without paying.
7. A creative work that is a funny imitation of something and pokes fun at an original work.
10. A clear way to define the copyright of your creative work so people know how it can be used.
11. Editing clips of video, sound, images, and text by changing different parts together to create something new.
12. Any idea or artistic creation that is recorded in some form, whether it’s hard copy or digital.
13. Legal protection that creators have over the things they create.
14. Editing together clips of video, sound, images, and text by “mashing” different parts together to create something new.

1. The ability to use copyrighted work without permission, but only in certain ways and specific situations
2. Creative work that's not copyrighted and free to use without permission.
3. A piece of artwork made by piecing together different materials, including photos, images, or other artwork.
4. Reworking a portion of a song or sound recording into a new composition.
8. A kind of copyright that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on your creative work, as long as they give you credit for it.
9. To reform, reuse, or remix copyrighted work into something else.