Fair Use & Copyright

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  1. 3. Works whose copyright owners are unknown or cannot be located, making it difficult to obtain permission to use the work.
  2. 4. A type of fair use where the new work adds new expression, meaning, or message to the original, often changing it significantly.
  3. 7. Works whose intellectual property rights have expired, been forfeited, or are inapplicable, making them freely available for public use.
  4. 11. A non-profit organization that offers free licenses to creators, enabling them to legally share their work with the public under specified terms and conditions.
  5. 13. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own without proper attribution.
  6. 15. A decentralized network that allows users to share files directly with each other.
  7. 16. A 1998 United States law that provides tools for copyright owners to protect their rights in the digital age, including provisions against circumvention of digital rights management (DRM).
  8. 17. Giving credit to the original creator of a work when it is used by others.
  9. 20. The action of violating someone else's intellectual property rights, especially copyright.
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  1. 1. A new work that is based on or derived from one or more existing works (e.g., a movie adaptation of a book).
  2. 2. The legal right granted to the creator of an original work, giving them exclusive rights to use, distribute, and modify that work
  3. 5. Use of a work that is not intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
  4. 6. A work created by an employee as part of their job, or a work specifically commissioned under a written agreement, where the employer or commissioner is considered the legal author.
  5. 8. A government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
  6. 9. A symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.
  7. 10. The rights of creators to have their work attributed to them and to object to any derogatory treatment of their work.
  8. 12. A legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, under certain conditions.
  9. 14. Creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce.
  10. 18. A letter sent to an individual or business to stop allegedly illegal activity and not to restart it.
  11. 19. A permission granted by the copyright holder to use the copyrighted material in certain ways.