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Common Copyright
vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Commercial Purposes | A use in connection with a business, usually a profit |
| Copyright infringement | A violation of the exclusive rights of a copyright holder, such as cpoying, distributing, or performing the copyright owner's work without permission unless the use is otherwise authorized by law |
| Copyright | A law that protects a creator's ownership of and control over the work he or she creates, requiring other people to get the creator's permission before they copy, share, or perform that work. |
| Creative Commons | A kind of copyright that makes it easy for people to copy, share, and build on someone's creative work-as long as they give the creator credit for it. |
| Fair use | The ability to use a small amount of someone's creative work without permission, but only in certain ways. |
| License | Permission granted by the copyright holder to copy, distribute, display, transform and/or perform a copyrighted work. |
| Plagiarism | The practice of passing of another author's work or ideas as one's own |
| Public Domain | Creative work that's not protected by copyright and therefore free for one to use |