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P015
P015 Legal Rights & Copyright
Question | Answer |
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | an idea or creation of the mind made real in a form we can touch, see, or hear, for which the law provides exclusive rights to the creator |
PATENT | an exclusive right granted to anyone who invents any new, useful, and non-obvious process. |
TRADEMARK | protects words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services. |
TRADE SECRET | information that companies keep secret to give them an advantage over their competitors. |
COPYRIGHT | the legal protection for original works of authorship that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. |
TANGIBLE FORM | a creative work recorded in some physical medium, whether on paper, canvas, or computer memory |
DERIVATIVE WORK | a new, original product that includes aspects of a preexisting, already copyrighted work. |
CREATIVE COMMONS | a simple standardized way to grant limited copyright permissions to creative work |
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT | the unauthorized or illegal use of copyrighted works. |
FAIR USE | a legal defense to permit limited use of copyrighted material for news reporting, parody or education without acquiring permission. |
PUBLIC DOMAIN | when intellectual property is not protected by law, but instead belongs to the public as a whole. |
ROYALTY | payment for a license to copy or use a copyrighted work for a single use |
ROYALTY FREE | a license to use or copy a copyrighted work unlimited number of times |
TALENT RELEASE | a document in which a person gives someone permission to use a photo or video recording of themselves |
PROPERTY RELEASE | a document in which an owner gives someone permission to use pictures of his/her property for commercial purposes |
ATTRIBUTION | requiring credit to the author of a work used in another's work, usually in the form Copyright (C) 2000 author's-name. |
NON COMMERCIAL | copyright license that does not allow a work to be used in any type of commerce or making money activities |
NO DERIVATIVES | copyright license that does not allow any derivatives such as remixes or other modifications |
SHARE ALIKE | copyright license that requires copies or derivitives of a work to be released under the same licence as the original. |