Fair Use & Copyright
Across
- 3. Works whose copyright owners are unknown or cannot be located, making it difficult to obtain permission to use the work.
- 4. A type of fair use where the new work adds new expression, meaning, or message to the original, often changing it significantly.
- 7. Works whose intellectual property rights have expired, been forfeited, or are inapplicable, making them freely available for public use.
- 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.
- 13. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own without proper attribution.
- 15. A decentralized network that allows users to share files directly with each other.
- 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).
- 17. Giving credit to the original creator of a work when it is used by others.
- 20. The action of violating someone else's intellectual property rights, especially copyright.
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- 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. The legal right granted to the creator of an original work, giving them exclusive rights to use, distribute, and modify that work
- 5. Use of a work that is not intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or monetary compensation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 9. A symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company or product.
- 10. The rights of creators to have their work attributed to them and to object to any derogatory treatment of their work.
- 12. A legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, under certain conditions.
- 14. Creations of the mind, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, designs, symbols, names, and images used in commerce.
- 18. A letter sent to an individual or business to stop allegedly illegal activity and not to restart it.
- 19. A permission granted by the copyright holder to use the copyrighted material in certain ways.