Term | Definition |
Access Copyright | Canadian Copyright licensing agency |
Copyright | the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work |
Intellectual Property | property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks. |
Royalty | a percentage of the revenue from the sale of a book, performance of a theatrical work, use of a patented invention or of land, etc, paid to the author, inventor, or proprietor |
Trade marks | any name, symbol, figure, letter, word, or mark adopted and used by a manufacturer or merchant in order to designate his or her goods and to distinguish them from those manufactured or sold by others. |
Public Domain | the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection. |
Moral Rights | rights of creators of copyrighted works; include the right of attribution, the right to have a work published anonymously or pseudonymously, and the right to the integrity of the work |
Performing Rights | Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher |
Plagiarism | an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author |
Fair Dealing | limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work |
Patent | the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. |
Blanket License | a license that gives the licensee the right to perform all of the works in the repertory for a single stated fee that does not vary |