Term | Definition |
Copyright | The right to how one's intellectual property are used or copied. |
Intellectual property | Ownership of how one expresses an idea in an original way. |
Royalty | Money paid for use of copyrighted material. |
Trade-marks | Distinct ways a product is distinguished- eg slogans, product names, packaging. |
Public domain | Works that belong to the public and do not require money or permission from the creator for use. |
Moral rights | The rights of Paternity (the author can use whatever name they wish as author), Integrity (use of a work must keep the original author's integrity intact), and Association (the author may refuse the use of their work in association with anything. |
Access copyright | A non-profit organization that provides licensing for use of copyright protected materials for royalty fee and distributed royalties to copyright owners. |
Performing rights | Songwriters, lyricists, composers, and music publishers have the right to be paid when their work is performed by others for money. SOCAN is the company that collects and distributes these royalties. |
Plagarism | The use of someone else's work as your own. Failure to cite the work of others used in your work. |
Fair dealing | An exception to copyright when the use is for research, private study, criticism, review, news reporting, education, or parody/satire providing that the use id "fair". |
Patent | Protects inventions"- processes, equipment, and manufacturing techniques but not an objects aesthetic or artistic qualities. |
Blanket license | A license that allows a music user the ability to use all the music in a performance Organizations repertoire as much as they want for a specified length of time. |