Copyright Vocabulary

3. Is any word, name, symbol or device used by a person or a company to identify and distinguish its products.
5. Is taking someone's work and calling it yours.
6. Is the right of public to make reasonable use of copyright materials in special circumstances without the copyright owner.
7. The right to perform a composition in public; this is one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder.
12. Is a person or a company who owns any one of the Exclusive Rights of copyright in a work.
14. Is a form of protection given to the author or creators of "original works or authorship"
15. Works that are in the public domain belong to everyone and can be freely used without compensating the authors.
16. The stealing of software by copying it and giving or selling it to another person.
17. The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
18. Is the permission granted by a copyright owner to the person requesting the right to use the copyrighted materials.

1. Term applied to agencies of mass communication, such as newspapers, magazines, and telecommunications.
2. Licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
4. Is the unauthorized use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's "exclusive rights", such as the right to reproduce.
5. is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words.
8. The recording of dialogue and other sound that takes place simultaneously with the filming of a scene.
9. A work that distributes copies of that work to the public.
10. Ensuring that the copyright owner is given credit for what was used in a media outlet.
11. Is work prepared by an employee as part of their work, the employer owns the work.
13. Is a type of Intellectual property that relates to inventions.